Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the history of a terrifying secret police is now held in their former headquarters.

A masterpiece of LGBT art has been restored in what may now be the most valuable restroom in America.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

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

Rebuilt remains of a temple to Roman god Mithras.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.