Lisbon, Portugal
Preserved Head of Diogo Alves
An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Lisbon, Portugal
An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.
Siena, Italy
A dismembered holy head stares out from her beautiful reliquary at the St. Dominic Basilica.
London, England
The remains of the great moral philosopher reside in a university in London.
Geneva, Switzerland
A plain wooden seat that once belonged to one of the most prominent figures of the Protestant Reformation.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.
Westminster, Massachusetts
One man built this massive wall to keep his neighbor from complaining about working on Sundays.
Monroe, Connecticut
Visit the grave of America's most prominent paranormal investigators and self-proclaimed demonologists.
Florence, Italy
The middle finger of modernity.
Kansas City, Missouri
This unconventional used book store was once in the news for the surprising act of burning books.
Baldwin City, Kansas
One of the oldest continually operated libraries in Kansas.
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.
Kyoto, Japan
This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."
Madrid, Spain
Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.
Boise, Idaho
When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.
Los Angeles, California
This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.
Pringy, Switzerland
Watch cheese-flipping robots in action at this factory and museum.
Meaux, France
Visit a museum dedicated to the “the king of cheeses.”
Nashville, Tennessee
At this Nashville restaurant, cheese and charcuterie arrive via conveyor belt.
Stilton, England
Competitors race wooden replicas of pungent blue cheese.
Hawthorne, California
The first privately-owned space capsule to orbit and land carried a secret payload: a wheel of Le Brouère.
Gloucester, England
Every year locals tumble 650 feet down to the bottom of the hill chasing a Double Gloucester cheese.
Zeitz, Germany
A simple tribute to the microscopic arachnid that gives its juices and its life to help make a speciality German cheese.
Bethlehem, Connecticut
These Benedictine nuns have been making artisanal cheeses since before it was cool.
Perth, Ontario
A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.