Places alessandralee Wants to Go

A cultural center dedicated to the preservation of the Yiddish language and culture with over a million volumes.

Inside a former smuggler's cave, an artificial waterfall and light show.

A Gothic gym and community space that encourages fitness for misfits.

A monument to placate the spirits of an ancient forest.

A Guinness World Record-holding social enterprise whose shows don't shy away from heavy themes.

A complex of ancient Buddhist rock-cut caves with a large, well preserved prayer hall.

The world’s oldest boat lift is also known in the United Kingdom as the "Cathedral of the Canals" and one of the "Seven Wonders of the Waterways."

This public artwork, hidden down a cliffside hiking trail, encourages visitors to contemplate the tides.

The Museum of the Forum of Caesar Augusta showcases the city's ancient Roman sewage system.

This remote Scottish cave has been a site of Christian pilgrimage for many centuries.

This 3,000-year-old “opium black fortress” towers over the ancient town named after it.

The walls, tables, and much of the ceiling in this pizzeria are covered with $40,000 in $1 bills.

This colossal hiking boot, once built for a scout jamboree, serves as an observation tower and barbecue area.

Explore the world's largest collection of locks, keys, handcuffs, and ornate hardware, and crack the code on an antique-filled escape room.

An art gallery dedicated to art works by coal miners which depict work in the mines and life in the former British mining communities.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

This unassuming bridge is most likely one of Michelangelo's unfinished masterworks.

For over two centuries, this palace served as a residence for the Holy Roman Inquisition's leaders, a courthouse, and a prison.

These natural hot springs form four-tiered soaking pools with temperatures ranging from 85 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

The rusting hulk of a Soviet warship sits on a Polish beach.

The legacy of the Ohio-founded Fostoria Glass Company lives on in West Virginia.

Does this church in Naples hold the true tomb of Vlad the Impaler, the notoriously cruel figure who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula?

Home to a garden of poisonous plants and the only legal cannabis and opium farms in Tokyo.

For books about travel, whether factual or fictional, the perfect antiquarian does exist.