Places brinkmonkey Wants to Go

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

World's largest collection of serial killer artwork and other macabre exhibits.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This monumental work of art symbolizes the coming together of a previously divided city.

A tribute to the life and work of the beloved "Peanuts" cartoonist.

This unique sculpture of a steelworker is hidden amid the trees of Sheffield.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

These legendary stone steps were once used to haul coffins up the rockface.

A flight of this "ghost staircase" has 40 steps on the way up, but only 39 steps on the way down.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

This imprint of an old computer keyboard has a unique backstory.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

Decades' worth of lost and forgotten objects make up the collection of this tantalizingly odd little museum.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

These cascading falls resonate throughout the Bulgarian forest.