Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

Not merely a museum – but a whirring powerhouse that offers a subterranean peek into the heart and soul of cable car operations.

A brooding mansion of clinker brick stands out among the Victorian houses of Pacific Heights.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.

The best place in the park to test out your throwing arm.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

An essential stop before plundering, BYO Cutlass.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The mysterious white squirrels of this Illinois city are treated like sacred cows.

The villagers of the coldest inhabited place on Earth adjust to unique challenges presented by day-to-day living.

For a couple of months each year this Swedish city turns into a festive neon phantasmagoria.

Australia's first opal field led to a mining rush in the 1890s.

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

A giant scale model giving a sneak peek at what urban planners see for Shanghai by 2020.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

The yawning remains of a complex naval fortress still haunt this Australian shore.

This wrecked airplane has been sitting on a black sand beach since the 1970s.