Places SingingMouse Wants to Go

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

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

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

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

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A small but immensely extravagant palace built by the "Night King."

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

This little gem of Spanish Colonial architecture has been abandoned since the 1950s.

The ruins of the castle that chemicals built.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A chain of bells connect the California Missions and honor the legend of the "King’s Highway."

A massive volcanic plug is now a protected area that hosts a number of bird species.