Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This 1920s Amsterdam neighborhood was built as a giant experiment in concrete construction.

A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.

Despite being stolen multiple times, this civic electrician's street corner Snoopy won't be stopped.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Religious perseverance and cultural coexistence manifest in an architectural gem that multiple wars couldn't topple.

The smallest country in Australia is a principled little thing with a friendly emperor.

Halloween spirit is alive and well in this small town, where residents race motorized caskets in a yearly tradition.

The massive, original Colgate Clock is mounted on a defunct factory building that was once a prison.

Just below the surface, shrimp are producing temperatures hotter than the sun.

This kitsch eatery is chock-a-block with bric-a-brac.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

A secret Virgin Mary tucked away on a Brazilian beach.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

The largest body of water in Massachusetts annihilated four small towns just to slake Boston's thirst.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

Home to the story of the outlaw turned funhouse mummy, Elmer McCurdy.

This enchanting rainforest hotel looks as though it grew from the forest itself.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

Rotterdammers' dirty minds gave this Santa a dirty nickname and cursed it to a life of wandering.

Just a few miles off the western coast of Ireland lies an isle steeped in Irish literary history.

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.