Places andyolinski Wants to Go

Watch maple syrup being made without ever leaving the city.

A unique subway station where pillars evoke ancient civilizations.

A space-age 1950s pavilion on a secluded path is full of Toronto history surprises.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

Now an entertainment complex, the Lingotto building was once an avant-garde auto factory with a test track on the roof.

The secret centuries-old German cemetery in the heart of the Vatican.

A fairy tale castle in modern Rome.

The behemoth beasts engaged in an epic battle is the second-tallest statue in the contiguous United States.

A unique tribute to the chocolatey past that helped shape one British city.

Improbably, the largest wildlife refuge in the conterminous 48 states sits just northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A luxurious doomsday bunker hidden beneath an unassuming Las Vegas home offers the best of subterranean suburbia.

The second-largest gold nugget in existence, displayed in a Las Vegas casino conveniently named the Golden Nugget.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Preserving the remains of Native American cultures which otherwise would have been submerged behind Hoover Dam.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

The history of Reykjavik told through a historical village and live actors.

A long-vacant Scottish Rite temple in Hollywood has been converted into an art museum filled with Masonic relics.

The space-age building is home to one of the few remaining rotating restaurants in America, and the only one that inspired a 1980s sitcom.

America's first wax museum opened in 1948.

Lemon Grove, California is known for its giant lemon...and mummified bodies.

This arid landscape was once a lush wetland. Today, it's a paleontological site filled with fossilized mammoths, sabertooth cats, and more.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.