Places trelawneyskye Wants to Go

Early habitat dioramas and home of the elusive gaff, the skvader.

The library's graceful rotunda is like a bibliophile's temple.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

Skeletons, medical artifacts, and other obscure and precious treasures all displayed in a wooden pharmacist's cabinet.

An iconic and eccentric bar for "Manouche" Jazz music keeps expanding its space—and its influence.

Collection of antique taxidermy and natural specimens, near one of Paris's oldest flea markets.

An antique curios dealer and hybrid taxidermist.

A charming flea market shop dedicated to retrofuturistic apparati.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

Pitié-Salpêtrière was the dumping grounds for women who received the dreaded diagnosis of "hysterical."

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Hidden away in a modern library are the remains of one of the 18th century's most celebrated wunderkammers.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

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

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.