Places thedeparture Wants to Go

This church devoted to Mexico's "dead saint" is a festive celebration of a formerly hidden religious figure.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Medical and zoological curiosities for sale.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Gift shop offering toe tags and chalk body beach towels tucked into a coroner's office.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Once a purveyor of Santeria supplies, religious products , and household sundries, now closed.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

A shrine to a skeleton saint in the city of angels.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This tiny lake temple dedicated to a water goddess seems to float on the surface.

One native village in Bali lays their dead at the foot of a holy tree whose natural fragrance seems to hide the stench as the bodies decompose.

An old hill fort covered in over 100,000 crosses is a symbol of Lithuanian nationalism and beliefs.

Limestone grottoes turns everyday objects into stone.

This French anatomy museum greets guests with a skinless man, mid-shovel.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Largest collection of mounted dinosaur specimens in the world.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

A Natural History and Science Emporium.

Harlem park dedicated to compulsive hoarders killed by their own junk.