Places bluestorm1738 Wants to Go

A bloodstain from "the wound of the transverberation of the heart."

A military museum and library dedicated to the citizen soldier.

First known as the "Sample House," this construction mash-up was meant to be a living catalogue of building styles.

Half-sized replica of the Leaning Tower of Pisa built to honor Galileo.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

What may be America's largest classic video game arcade lurks inconspicuously in a Chicago suburb.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

The titular fictional logger only inhabits this otherwise historically focussed museum via a piece of fiberglass kitsch.

It's believed the soldier was 109 years old when he passed away.

The only gulag ever to exist in socialist Yugoslavia.

An eclectic art form practiced by untrained masters is celebrated at this museum in the heart of Zagreb's old Upper Town.

When Croatia became independent of Yugoslavia, the splintering governments left behind these concrete tunnels.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

Formerly Yugoslavia's "forbidden island," this sleepy little city still holds the abandoned remains of military strongholds.

This scale model of our solar system hid in plain sight for years before a physics team sought out all the planets.

Longest fortress system anywhere in Europe.

The now-overgrown beach resort was once frequented by Yugoslav military elite.

This former estate of a fascist leader is now a burnt out ruin leading to a system of secret tunnels.

This picturesque medieval monastery guards a small trove of historic treasures.

A wunderkammer of gold and silver reliquaries and ancient saintly bones.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

At Washington's Dulles Airport is a satellite museum (no pun intended) with three quarters of a million square feet of aircraft history.

Steadily reminding Czechia of its past.

The design of this beautifully crafted building was inspired by Norwegian glaciers.