Places asdonkar Wants to Go

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Former hunting lodge of a duke who was an avid collector of impressionist works.

Despite being considered a thoroughly American sport, basketball's oldest surviving playing field is found in the basement of a Paris YMCA.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Down a cobblestone alleyway is a museum dedicated to Romanticism, with a secret garden.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

A Victorian cemetery in the heart of Brooklyn remains a popular mecca of morbid curiosity.

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

The ruins of an abandoned crematorium haunt an eerie deserted German cemetery.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

The legendary court where emerging basketball players gain their street cred.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

An old asylum graveyard that's been abandoned for half a century attracts those seeking a dark thrill.