Places Aty Trocious Wants to Go

Built to give thanks for the passing of a plague epidemic, this cathedral is a one-of-a-kind architectural hybrid.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

The highest pedestrian bridge in Singapore looks like a series of undulating waves rising between two public parks.

The world's second-longest burning light bulb.

Crumbling hotel echoes with the sounds of the '30s.

A gargantuan crystal kingdom.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

This 50-ton ship on Orcas Island has never seen the ocean.

This dilapidated ship carcass covered in trees is a striking sight.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This long, dark tunnel is open to hikers, but those without lights are known to get confused even on the straight path.

This shallow pit was once used to send over 20,000 buffalo plummeting to their death.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

Where the writer penned his famous story about a jumping frog.

Its dark depths conceal millions of rare, delicate crystal formations.

One of the oldest reform schools in the United States, home to wayward boys such as Merle Haggard, now abandoned.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Early prototype for Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim.