Places tonkazee Wants to Go

A tongue-in-cheek arcade where the games are based on everyday life.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

The unusual burial monument of Arizona's first governor.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

This New Orleans boutique and nursery specializes in rare flora, with a focus on carnivorous plants.

An old-timey wax exhibition campily depicting New Orleans legends and scandals.

This colorful New Orleans bookstore features rare and used titles, with a specialty in Cajun fare.

This cathedral dedicated to Louis IX, sainted King of France, holds many secrets.

Professional and amateur dioramas, taxidermy, and oddities all located in an attic above a gallery.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.

The world-record holder for the longest bridge stretching continuously over water.

The state's oldest continuously operating museum houses more than 5,000 Civil War artifacts.