Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

The first mosque in Ghana is known as the "Mecca of West Africa."

This pump on the bad side of Victorian London betrayed a horrifying revelation about the water supply.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A WWI fighter plane and turn-of-the-century penny candy shop are among the unexpected features of this Financial District building.

The name of this tiny pocket park tucked between two buildings on Manhattan's Upper West Side is Latin for its location: "seventy-one."

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

Scattered monuments in the middle of the Sahara dedicated to the late Egyptian actor and desert explorer.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

Ghost stories surrounded this “castle,” the only structure from a huge mansion that was never built.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

Underground farm located in a former bank vault deep within the bowels of Tokyo's business district.

Modern design and unusual architecture make this mountaintop temple no ordinary Buddhist retreat.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.