Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

A strip of neutral ground where the people of Tajikistan and Afghanistan come together to trade.

One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

An abandoned Soviet-era park that, when viewed from the air, looks like a pentagram.

This unique bridge physically lifts a piece of the road into the air to let boats pass by.

Once featuring over 60 miniature replicas of famous Chinese locations, the Splendid China theme park was completely abandoned and is now mostly rubble.

A semi-abandoned replica of Prince Edward Island's Avonlea—in Japan.

Residents of this Brooklyn neighborhood may be unaware their houses sit atop a buried trolley graveyard.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

The largest manmade caves in Europe now function as a motorbike club's headquarters.

For one day every month Barcelona's Estació de França transforms into a market for model trains.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

World's largest film studio, where visitors tour the decaying sets that litter the harsh desert environment.

Walk through a fairytale in Tuscany.

One of the last surviving C-97s sits in a field in front of a Wisconsin inn.

A collection of items from a way of life that no longer exists.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.