Places bleachedrhodopsin Wants to Go

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

The old observatory in Copenhagen has a spiral corridor used as a racetrack.

Copenhagen's celebrated theme park and gardens.

Beneath Denmark's Højbro bridge, a bronze merman and his seven sons forever mourn for the mother and wife who left them for land.

The world's largest collection of fine-scale miniatures and one the nation's largest collections of antique toys.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A collection of noses tucked inside an art museum reveals how times have changed.

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

To avoid the demolition costs this abandoned drawbridge was simply left in the up position.

The elegant structure of this 19th century railroad bridge creates an illusion of infinity.

Millions of years of oxidation make a drive down this winding Death Valley road surprisingly colorful.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

This chimerical bridge/tunnel appears to dead end right into the sea.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Nordic giants resurrected from the sea and restored to their former greatness.

The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

Jurassic theme park in the small town of Erlian.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

This historic collection of Native Alaskan artifacts was resurrected through a partnership between the WPA and tribal artisans.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.