Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

A palatial horse museum outside Shanghai is home to the most pampered horses in the world.

This house's itty bitty size means no humans allowed.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The "Great Sewer" of ancient Rome is one of the oldest sewer systems in the world, and is still in use.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

A tiny but mighty little pumper sits in the middle of the street, waiting for the next big oil strike.

A strange rock formation with numerous legends trying to explain it.

The church's remarkable frescoes incorporate Finnish artist Hugh Simberg's trademark themes of death and the supernatural.

The farm toy capital of the world hosts a museum filled with toy tractors dating back to the late 1800s.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

An eccentric 18th century naval officer built a ship's quarterdeck on his roof, the inspiration for Mary Poppins's "Admiral Boom."

An unexpectedly extraterrestrial room in a former Victorian resort club.

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

The "stairway to heaven" lookout tower was built to resist weather, arson, and the laws of physics.

A tiny village in Wales claims the name of a noble medieval hound slain for a crime he didn't commit.

A brush maker used his factory to protect blind Jews from the Gestapo.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

Guests can stay at a hotel in the former French abbey where lie the tombs of King Henry II and King Richard the Lionheart.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

This Italian ski resort rose to fame when Benito Mussolini was held prisoner there and then rescued by the SS.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.