Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

Wedged between two sets of row houses is an awkwardly located family graveyard.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This simple convenience store sits on the location where the Ouija board was named—and has a plaque to prove it.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

Walk through the history of American pop culture.

The man who first patented the Ouija board rests in peace beneath a headstone that playfully reflects that achievement.

They sort through millions of dollars worth of diplomatic gifts on behalf of the government.

Those with a sharp eye can find the hidden image of a German Shepherd on the memorial's Mural Wall.

An overlooked oasis of quiet on the grounds of Washington's monumental basilica.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The national park was once a plantation estate.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.

People escaping slavery may have hidden inside a corpse vault.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A Spiritualist house of worship where believers communicate with the dead in the spirit world.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A three-story copper skybridge connects two Manhattan buildings with Art Deco luxury.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.