Places zenman Wants to Go

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

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

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

New York's oldest magic store.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

The world's largest collection of witchcraft regalia.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The remains of this early 20th century refinery loom on a mountainside like a graffiti-covered fortress.