Places alebrun Wants to Go

A strange machine made to evaluate the world economy using water and lots of tubes.

Edoras, capital city of Rohan in Lord of the Rings, once sat atop this isolated New Zealand mountain.

This walk to the Pacific Ocean is surrounded by modern statues of Mochica Gods.

The rough and tumble president's childhood home displays the shirt he was once shot in and the speech that saved him.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

New York's oldest and possibly grandest keeper of books.

Nondescript elevator doors open to reveal a stunning, surreal world.

Abandoned city hidden from the world by tropical forest and isolation on the coast of Kenya.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

After the comedian dissed a Connecticut town on his show, they named a sewage treatment plant after him.

Relics from an era long gone, sit idle outside this Estonian museum.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

World War II-era Nazi compound nestled in the Santa Monica hills.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

When German-Iraqi relations broke down, this embassy was vacated post haste.

A museum in the building where Nazi Germany signed its surrender tells the story of World War II from the Soviet perspective.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

The hippo that stands on this university campus was once a drunken flea market purchase.

These tiny effigies are believed to represent victims of Edinburgh’s notorious Anatomy Murders.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Inside this church, a monument honors the first burial site of the famed philosopher.

Finally reunited, the three effigies now stand in a museum courtyard.