Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.

An Art Nouveau gem hides beneath the layers of city grime obscuring this once-magnificent building.

Legend says if you stick your thumb in the hole and it gets wet, your wish will be granted.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

A fountain standing as a testament to a doomed alliance.

Ancient serpentine sacrifice holder that has stood the test of time.

This remarkably well-preserved Egyptian plinth is pretty well traveled for a giant piece of stone.

Latvia's symbolic mountain-shaped national library is home to millions of cultural tomes.

These sacred totem houses connect the Fatakulu people with the spirits of their ancestors.

One of the world's largest tractors was built to replace camel caravans.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

The luxurious circular mansion built for a Communist leader now lies abandoned.

A fake medieval village in the middle of Turin.

There's a labyrinth of medieval chambers hidden deep below a 15th-century pub.

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

Iconic red and white plaques show the creative names invented to navigate the city streets.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

It was once nicknamed "the most bombed hotel in Europe."

A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.

A 246-foot-high revolving restaurant rises unexpectedly from a forested Finnish hilltop.

A replica of the decorated wooden pillars Viking sailors threw overboard when finding new places to establish a settlement.

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