Places Sydney Rose Wants to Go

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

This wonky bit of historical taxidermy is experiencing a second life online.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

Home with Gothic windows featured in a famous painting.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

The final resting place of the famous Rhode Island lighthouse keeper who heroically saved dozens of people from drowning.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

When the plague struck York, this stone was used to leave supplies for the sick.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

Pay your respects to departed pets, both celebrity and otherwise.

The rubbery beast is sculpted from recycled materials.

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

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The natural history museum displaying the British bird collections and dioramas of Edward Booth, free of charge.

Taxidermy and miniatures come together to create this unique museum.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

Taxidermy of a famous hippo who spent three years walking over a thousand miles across South Africa.

The secluded beach getaway from Wes Anderson's dreamy summer romance.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

Recovered from the brink of extinction, at home in the Financial District.