Places SL Wants to Go

A Buddhist theme park brings you a Buddhist version of Hell.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

A mega theme park-wax museum mélange containing all things biblical.

This head-spinningly bizarre Depression-era art cave is wall-to-wall quartz and Jesus.

Mountain where Jesus was first tempted by the Devil.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

Devoted Buddhists can earn enlightenment in the next life by crawling through this symbolic nostril.

When this massive wooden temple ran out of rope, they made one out of devotees' hair.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Nicknamed the "Museum of Horrors," this French anatomical collection has been fascinating visitors for over a century.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

This former Masonic lodge has been transformed into part museum, part bar, all awesome.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This eclectic natural history collection holds everything from a bit of the trans-atlantic cable to Hemingway's marlin.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

A museum of the dime museum that features weird entertainments of yesteryear, from feejee mermaids to flea circuses.