Places Savine Wants to Go

A library and shop devoted to the body, mortality, and bringing to light forgotten or neglected histories

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Tucked in the back of this amazing antique store is an important piece of medical history.

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.

Bar full of oddities, specimens, artifacts and homages to the great dime museums of the past.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

The Binghamton area is home to six of the last remaining hand-carved vintage carousels.

This little-known collection holds everything from "Dracula" notes, to the manuscript of "Ulysses," to the forged works of Shakespeare.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

Yo, Adrian!

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.