Places RobertaF Wants to Go

Come crisp December nights, this fairly plain neighborhood becomes a holiday dream world.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

More tin toys than you can shake a clapping monkey at.

The flock of plastic poultry is an ode to the classic comedy staple.

See the computer’s history revealed over the course of 20,000 years.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

Museum houses an impressive display of the origin and artistry from the now-quaint invention's history.

The quaint little Vermont town played a quaint little Connecticut town in Tim Burton's "Beetlejuice."

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

The Florence Nightingale Museum is home to the famous nurse's most treasured possession: her beloved pet owl.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

150-year-old satirical tableaus made from stuffed frogs.

The only place to see live frogs don pigtails and top hats, then eat their scrumptious legs.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

Collection dedicated to brands, packaging and advertising.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

A local tree surgeon has created a whimsical walk full of carved tree stumps near Scotland's Loch Lomond.

A university observatory dome painted to resemble the beloved 'Star Wars' droid.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.