Places squiddlywinks Wants to Go

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

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

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

450 dead and frozen fish, proudly on display in Japan.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A treasure trove of pathological, forensic, parasitological, and anatomical specimens.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

A circus legend leaves an unexpected endowment.

A famous hotel houses an impression collection of mini dioramas and giant doll houses.

One woman’s obsession gave birth to this lovely oddity at the Boston Public Library.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

An collection of Chinese propaganda posters from 1949 to 1979.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.