Places aesopsc Wants to Go

This picturesque abandoned home is rumored to be a spite house.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Science fiction's grandfather has a fittingly marvelous tomb.

This bright yellow relic is the final survivor of a short burst of seashell-shaped petrol pumps.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Tiny observatory made big contributions to the study of the Earth's motion.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

Made from trees and then abandoned, this fence is still growing along a path in Germany.

Why walk on this historical site when you can zoom down instead?

This lonely waterfront memorial to the men of the Titanic was erected by the "Women of America."

A Civil War fort in the middle of Washington, D.C. has been swallowed by a forest.

A railroad tunnel that, upon its completion, was considered one of the engineering marvels of the modern world.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This rusting remnant of the local herring industry is being given a second life.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The victims of a free-floating Japanese bombing during WWII are remembered by this stone monument.

A complimentary beverage is offered to the bodega's resident rodents every day.

A gift from Abbot Kinney and a little bit of piece of Black history in Venice Beach.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.