Places remcrae Wants to Go

Learn about Iceland's hidden folk at this school dedicated to the study of elves.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The graves of a Connecticut family thought to have been plagued by a vampire.

The final resting place of New England's last "vampire."

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

This one-room museum is dedicated to Norwegian history and jokes.

The world's northernmost aquarium looks like it has fallen over.

The great polar explorer is remembered in this far northern town, where he embarked on his final expedition.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

An enormous concrete structure built over a nuclear crater.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Highly unusual subterranean stupa and adjacent cave monastery.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A wunderkammer of exoticism immortalized by Tom Waits.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

Caves that can't seem to quit producing the remains of prehistoric humans.

A supply store for traditional healers, this shop sells the hair of a dog--and its skin, skeleton, and reproductive organs, too.