Places alessandralee Wants to Go

These are probably the most beautifully crafted toilets you've ever seen.

A breathtaking viewing platform over the Alps.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

You can take a class, browse the library, or visit the lavish lair of an international men's humor society.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Chicago's museum dedicated to the history of bondage and fetishism is more textbook than titillation.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

In a quiet north Chicago neighborhood rests a stunning relic of the golden age of earthenware design.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

A tiny chapel clings to a precipice above Germany’s gemstone capital.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

A "simple-hearted artist" turned an isolated Icelandic valley into his own art museum.

A lonely medieval monastery on an uninhabited island.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This ancient temple is set up to take you on a pilgrimage of self.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Like Stonehenge, but with boats and oodles more charm.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.