Places thereasamk Wants to Go

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A significant example of Czech cubist architecture—a style you won't find anywhere else in the world.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

This amazing pedestrian suspension bridge in the Swiss Alps would give Indiana Jones nightmares.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

This statue of a Hindu cosmic dancer at CERN is a metaphor for modern physics.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

The largest source of fossilized insects anywhere.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

The first and only carousel with a lineup entirely of insects.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Plaque remembering the 18th century forced relocation of Acadians.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

This Maine bridge may be the last wire-supported bridge of its type in the world.

A collection of birdhouses await curious motorists and avian squatters.

Floor-to-ceiling frescoes by local art students cover the interior of a nearly 200-year-old church.

The tragedy of the Japanese internment camps is remembered here by a stark "Soul Consoling Tower."

An amalgam of precariously balanced boulders, ancient petroglyphs, and Buddhist shrines.

This Khmer-era temple includes a lintel that was stolen and displayed at the Art Institute of Chicago for years before returning to Thailand.

This ambiguous pig shrine is actually a monument to a beloved queen.