Places alessandralee Wants to Go

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

What looks like a simple quaint estate in rural Pennsylvania was in the 18th century home to a small monastic community.

Decorative folk arts dot the countryside barns of Berks County. 

Intricate storybook scenes are tucked inside these shadow boxes, which are tucked inside a library in the Pocono Mountains.

Complex tile installations designed by a renowned Polish artist in a Warsaw subway.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

This 40-meter waterfall of light graces one of the most iconic stations in the Madrid metro network.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

A three-centuries-old crypt in the foothills of an old plantation.

This headstone-like marker inscribed with three words has been an utter mystery for over a century.

This solitary stone engraved with a poem from 1852 has a mysterious and tragic past.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Picture yourself in history with this working collection of vintage photobooths.

A hidden Brooklyn basement gallery where two biologists nurture one of the Northeast’s rarest and most vibrant reptile collections.

According to legend, this cavern holds the passage that Persephone used to travel to and from the underworld.

Thousands of rock-cut tombs fill the cliffs of this Sicilian nature preserve.

Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.