Places smj99 Wants to Go

A world-class theater sits hidden in this remote town in West Iceland.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

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

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

A museum dedicated to exhibiting remarkable outsider art.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

The only university zoological museum in London houses extinct animals, bizarre natural history specimens, and a Micrarium of microscopic creatures.

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

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Experience what life was like in Ireland during the Viking and medieval ages.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Curios, scientific antiques, oddities for sale.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A collection of over 15,000 zines works to preserve DIY publishing culture.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Beloved bar home to musicians of all eras and reputations.

This high desert botanical garden is a unique display of New Mexico’s ecology and culture.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A unique workspace where offices reside on pirate ships and inside gingerbread houses.