Places gkirker Wants to Go

The legend of a local monster still haunts this small town.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

One of the best places in Florida to spot rare, carnivorous pitcher plants.

Pensacola's UFO home has withstood many hurricanes—just as the experimental 1960s design intended.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

This Mississippi seminary was the first in America to train Black Catholic priests.

One of the few existing, fully functional Showbiz Pizza animatronic shows.

A dramatically eroding canyon thousands of miles from the desert.

This largely forgotten piece of Cold War history stands hidden in the woods just north of the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

A seven-ton black granite monument dedicated to the memory of those who died and those who lived through the 1977 crash of the popular Southern rock band.

A monument to Cuffy, a rebellious enslaved person who became a national hero in Guyana.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

An abandoned colonial French prison notorious for its hellish conditions.

This "witch's market" is filled with Amazonian herbs, remedies, and the occasional libido-strengthening tincture.

Dating back to the Pre-Roman Iron Age, this piece of bread is Europe's oldest surviving formed bakery product.

Hidden in plain sight on a gable between two towers on the roof of shipping firm F. Laeisz' headquarter in Hamburg sits an unexpected bronze sculpture.

Model Trains and Much More in Hamburg.

Once the tallest building in the world, this abandoned church is now a monument to the destruction of WWII.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Executed in 1401, Exhumed in 1878, Stolen in 2010.

A fascinating little museum dedicated to the thousands of chemical substances concealed in our food.

This wooden hotel is a temple to German sustainability and forest conservation.

The spectacular and eerie moss-covered grave site of 19th-century Belgian merchant.