Places Umeko Wants to Go

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

This stately estate house features a tower covered in a bright, modern mural.

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

A 30-acre garden inspired by the principles of modern physics.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

Largest lake in Great Britain measured by surface area.

A 200-year-old collection of oddities and medical paraphernalia.

"Respectful to the dead, safe and sanitary to the living, dedicated to the Genius of Memory..."

Old-fashioned knowledge and modern engineering create the world's only rotating boatlift.

Medical history with an amazing, if frighting, collection of wax diseases on display.

The largest medical and anatomical collection in France lies hidden from the public.

A unrivaled and rather horrifying collection of wax dermatological models.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

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

A former plague hospital turned medical museum.

A house of bones — but nobody is quite sure to whom they belong.

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

Repository for more than 22 million pickled specimens.