Places Unusualer Wants to Go

The large collection of pre-Columbian pottery might make you blush.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Tucked behind the Institute of Neurological Science down a decrepit street resides the largest display of human brains in Latin America.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.

This stone complex marks the urban center of a lost civilization.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

A market for witches is hidden within a train station.

A breathtakingly steep set of stairs is carved directly into the face of the sea cliffs of Bonifacio.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

Each of these hand-painted wooden boxes, which date to between the 16th and 19th centuries, contains a genuine human skull.

Giant cauldrons overflow with Uzbekistan's favorite rice dish at this cavernous dining hall.

Touching displays of wishes for peace from the Cold War era.

Prowl through this sprawling bazaar under a massive Soviet-era dome for delicious eats.

The heartbeat of modern Uzbekistan’s thriving market culture.

The remains of a German plane still sit in the Norwegian wood where it crashed in 1942.

These circular ruins are all that remain of a 17th-century Arctic whaling outpost.

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

Mysterious man-made rock piles form an ancient cemetery on this rocky beach in Norway.

Research station devoted to mysterious floating lights seen in a Norwegian valley.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

Oslo's historic toboggan run has been letting thrill seekers slide from train stop to train stop for over a century.

World's strongest whirlpool.