Places Sam LaFrance Wants to Go

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

An abandoned asylum where patients have been forgotten but their possessions remain.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

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

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

The largest game reserve in Africa is home to thousands of species but refuses to house humans.

Human ancestor’s 3.6 million year-old footprints.

An endless sea of white conical domes.

Hot springs monkey spa in the middle of Hell's Valley.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

George Washington's dentures and Queen Victoria's dental instruments are in the nation’s official museum of the dental profession.

A Civil War Museum with some notable medical antiques.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

A collection of intricate sculptures so small they have to be seen through a microscope.

An extensive collection of fine art devoted to man's best friend.