Places snailhugs Wants to Go

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

This historic cemetery was inaccessible for several years due to dozens of land mines.

Oriental bazaar in the heart of Sarajevo.

Place with alleged mystical powers in Old Orthodox Church in Sarajevo.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

Extraordinary sculpture garden created by an eccentric English poet.

Mexico's astounding mummy museum with "the world's smallest mummy."

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

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

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

An unusual number plate signifies the building's saucy past.

Is there such thing as too many fruit bats? Not anymore.

A Maori village obliterated by an 1886 volcanic eruption.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

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

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Giftshop catering to cryptozoologists and anyone with a sense of humor.

The remains of Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, serve as a tool to educate about conservation.

A heroic pigeon that, through a barrage of gunfire, delivered a message that saved over 100 lives in World War I.