Places Rosa Elliott Wants to Go

Hundreds of mummies in a silent room, some with eerily pained expressions preserved on their faces.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

This Peruvian bone silo lined with hanging human skeletons and hundreds of skulls is topped with a remarkable Michelangelo replica.

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

An interactive museum-like experience takes visitors back to 1980s Communist Bulgaria.

A collection of retro plastic goods made with "the material of a thousand uses."

Music boxes like you've never imagined.

There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.

An amazing collection of curiosities hidden in a small Welsh village.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

This restaurant's specialty is "a major enigma for food historians."

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

The pioneer of psychoanalysis spent the final year of his life here, still seeing patients on that famous couch.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.