Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

This supermarket in Shanghai appears to be a typical Chinese convenience store, but all of the bottles are empty and all the containers are filled with nothing but air.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

The ceiling of Prohodna Cave in northern Bulgaria affords a peek at the sky via two deity-sized-eye-shaped holes.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Along the old Route 66 is an abandoned trading post made from old telephone poles, built by a former circus clown.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Hidden for 165 years inside a building designed by Thomas Jefferson are the remains of what may be America's first educational chemistry lab.

This museum holds a fully-functional replica of the "Turtle," the first American submarine ever built.

During World War II, this rice mill became a Nazi concentration camp.

Beneath a Virginia City bar is the entrance to an abandoned gold mine.

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

A map of Italy made entirely of trees.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

What happens here stays here – unless it affects the whole world.

After an epic flood washed away its enslavers, this city has been part ghost town, part cultural wildcard for the past three centuries.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

Explore a uniquely pristine Borneo forest, now protected by former headhunters turned tour guides.

A curious art park at the geographic center of Europe is home to 3,000 television sets and other wonders.