Places warja Wants to Go

It's always summer at the beach inside this former airship hangar.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A grotto-like lodge decorated with gilded mosaics, rocks and a noisy waterfall was the setting for the most sumptuous pleasure house of 1900s Europe.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The remaining relics of the patroness of Paris lie in a chapel under a striking double spiral staircase.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

Weird wax anatomical models reside here, as do other anatomical specimens.

A popular shrine where the Blessed Virgin allegedly appeared in 1830, displaying a holy armchair and two incorruptible remains of Lady Saints.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

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

This small museum collects the Christian remembrances which would otherwise be forgotten.

Strange secondhand shop showcasing taxidermy and oddies

A Museum of Psychiatry in a still-operating mental institution.

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

The Devil’s own choice when he needs a drink in Brussels.

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

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

The history and future of cannabis.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.