Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

The bells remain in a shattered heap exactly as they fell when the church was bombed in World War II.

The television series' iconic giant foot was borrowed from this classical painting.

This 14th century wine cellar is home to the oldest barrel-stored wine in the world.

Art Deco urban decay at this historical building.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

An engineering masterpiece, or “Scheme of Madness?”

A water pumping station disguised as a residential home to assuage concerned neighbors now tricks most passersby.

Finding the exact middle of a giant land mass is hard to determine, but this spot managed to do the trick.

A local landmark with generations of spraypainted messages, and more being added each day.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

A roadside spring pooling in an old bathtub where anyone can stop and sip.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

No one knows the origins of the mysterious stone ruins discovered on a hillside in Halifax.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

A derelict bit of transportation infrastructure hidden in the woods.

Rat sculptures try to infiltrate the Graybar Building in an architectural tribute to New York City's nautical history.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Gigantic natural towers in a Russian plateau.

An alternate history park where the Union Army loses the war... to dinosaurs.

A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.