Places alebrun Wants to Go

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

Once a prosperous mining village, this tiny Taiwanese town is now overrun with cute cats.

A unique sculpture park that specializes in the huge and bizarre.

Each time a baby is born in Ghent, these streetlights flash in silent celebration.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

This splendid tomb may look fantastic, but there's nothing in it...

Uh, pardon me, ma'am, but I couldn't help noticing that there's a Columbo statue in the middle of Budapest.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

A fake Transylvanian castle houses a cathedral of antlers.

A museum dedicated to a secret military hospital hidden beneath a castle in Budapest.

Budapest's Communist-era statues, banished to the suburbs.

This museum is dedicated to the little known ancient Roman history of Vienna.

A magnificent collection of imperial armor and weaponry.

Fake subway tiles were installed to cover a design that resembled the Confederate flag—it's unclear if the resemblance was intentional.

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The bad-ass ride of a soul legend, housed in one of the world's few soul museums.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

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Modern art meets modern convenience in possibly the world's most architecturally important public bathroom.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

This statue once earned the distinction as one of the "Three Major Disappointments of the World."

The 16-foot sculpture of a hand looks out from his perch on top of an art gallery.