Places amosner Wants to Go

Castro's communist ice cream mothership has been serving five-scoop "salads" for over 50 years.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

A wall within the institution displays the names of 13,000 Jews who took refuge in the city during World War II.

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

To find the "unicorns of the deep" you've got to go downstairs.

Where dioramas can follow you home.

Local lore says two enemy dragons live within these breathtaking mountain lakes.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Because sometimes you need to make a batch of frites even when the stores are all closed.

Three rooms of bones, curios, and one artist's collection of natural artifacts create this intriguing museum.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.

Exploring the wilder, more passionate sibling of Erg Chebbi feels like discovering a secret sun-kissed planet from another galaxy.

A creepy, deserted mock Arabian village can be found in the middle of the Qatari desert.

This stunning 15th-century royal hill fort preserves the age of chivalry in Rajasthan.

What was once England's second-richest abbey is now a haunting ruin.

A replica of the straw hut where Vladimir Lenin lived in hiding, disguised as a hay farmer, in 1917.

The evocative ruins of a 1,000-year-old hill fort lie within a popular tiger reserve.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

Built to be the ideal penitentiary, this abandoned panopticon saw several revolts and even a prisoners' coup.