Places Sax Russel Wants to Go

Acres of English cottage gardens, unexpectedly nestled in a Cleveland suburb.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

A network of concealed passageways lies within a busy London Underground station.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

A floating underwater hotel, created by a Swedish artist.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A rare wayfinding portmanteau of “Street” and “Avenue.”

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

A hoard of sky catalogs, astrophysical journals, even the works of Galileo and Copernicus.

Mine your own precious stones.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

A quirky assortment of musical marvels from around the world.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

The neighborhood shop is a sort of tiny cactus museum full of exotic specimens you can take home.

Europe's largest collection of matchbox designs is a fascinating exploration of the cultural history of the world.

Books bound in human skin and H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among a few of the treasures this library has to offer.

A natural history wunderkammer in the middle of the desert.

An Arizona museum with a collection of pharmaceutical oddities, including a jar of a gangster's chewed gum.

Thousands of Mexican Free-Tailed Bats soar around an abandoned storm drain at sunset each summer.