Places Sydney Rose Wants to Go

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

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

Parts of the civil rights movement unfolded in this historic eatery, helmed by the "Queen of Creole Cuisine."

Stones speckled along Harris Avenue reveal hidden nuggets of the past.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

This ancient oak tree sheltered accused "witches" in the 17th century.

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

The taxidermied remains of Charles Dickens' pet raven, which helped inspire one of Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems.

Paris' fabled purveyor of exotic taxidermy and natural history curios.

A multi-storied adobe complex has been inhabited for more than a thousand years.

One of the world's largest collections of pathological specimens.

A 200-year-old building in the French Quarter that was to be Napoleon's home in the New World.

A giant 400-acre preserve in North Florida for displaced wolves.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

Orcas on display and in the water.

Step inside Lucy, the world's largest "elephant."

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

So many migrating birds roost on the bridge, it has a special summer speed limit.

Andy Griffith's hometown has made itself up to look like the fictional town of Mayberry.