Places brinkmonkey Wants to Go

Small glass tiles offering windows into the city's layered past.

This unusual three-way wooden foot bridge spans two rivers at once.

Located in a Civil War era building, this café is engrained with the spirit of Edgar Allen Poe.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

A historic cider mill still using time-tested techniques.

It’s a street without a name, but there is a sign.

Visitors are encouraged to fish for water goblins at this haunted pool.

This statue commemorates the tale of the fisherman who captured a Kópakonan by stealing her skin while she was transformed as a woman.

Burgers and fries in the shadow of a dreaded Nazi symbol.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

One kilometer of thick brass rod laid out before your eyes.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

Cave in which Miguel de Cervantes hid while trying to escape captivity in Algiers.

Former Toronto home of the author who wrote, “The medium is the message.”

In a cemetery full of holy men, mobsters, and haunted graves, among the most remarkable graves an ordinary husband and wife's spinning headstone.

This oak has seen Vikings, the Black Death, and world wars pass but refuses to give up.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

Overlooked archeological site close to the city of Patras.

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

This 'terrible lizard' was one of the world's first animatronic dinosaurs.