Places thedeparture Wants to Go

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

This zoological museum began as the first great curiosity cabinet.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Dedicated to an "Unknown Man," this grave holds either the remains of a lovelorn suicide or a Cold War spy.

This professional clown's home is an outsider art wonderland.

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

Time-frozen department store of dangerous and dusty relics.

The Midwest's reigning king of surplus stores is full of nothing you need and everything you want.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

One man's artistic vision is a small town government's legal battle.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Largest graveyard in all of Japan surrounds a famous mausoleum.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

Buddhist monk remarkably preserved because he started the mummification process while still living.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

Nailing a coin to this holy stump is just another way to ask the gods for relief from dental pain.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

This experimental utopian "city of the future" in rural India may hold a dark secret.

Fifteen Jodhpur queens left their handprints before going to their fiery death.