Places squiddlywinks Wants to Go

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Contemporary art inspired by natural history and science drawing on ancient techniques in a modern world.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

An institution that preserves the history of institutionalization.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

This $3 million model train takes you through Chicago, Seattle, and the thousands of miles in between.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

The world's only known button museum.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

A Victorian natural history and ethnographic museum with wonderful turn-of-the-century, science-book-esque evolution displays.

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

A flourishing garden with pigs, donkeys, goats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, ducks, and sheep.

An incarceration museum on the spot of possibly the oldest prison in England.

A toy store with a century-long history preserves the craftsmanship of playthings of the past.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

The former estate of the Guggenheims, part of the opulent Gold Coast that inspired the Great Gatsby.

Every year model trains zip through a miniature New York City that's now 150 landmarks strong.

One Brooklyn man's collection of life-size fiberglass statues has taken over his entire yard.

Come for the pastrami, stay for the million-dollar art.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

The one-stop shop for all of your superhero (or evil arch-nemesis) needs.

Detailed facade of a brownstone in Boerum Hill.