Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

An abandoned railroad tunnel transformed into a creepy path for hikers and cyclists.

Palace, temple, and pyramid ruins mark the ancient Mesoamerican capital of Totonacapan.

A honeycomb-like structure of interlocking shelves creates a beehive of books.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

Internet rumors, often involving Icelandic singer Björk, have abounded regarding this isolated outcrop of rock.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

An eatery within a Bay Area Buddhist temple pulls off all your favorite Vietnamese classics without the meat.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

This airy five-floor library and museum houses thousands of books and rotating exhibits on Japanese monsters and anime.

This abandoned, spaceship-like building is home to a museum so unpopular that it has been put on hiatus for over two decades.

This luxury hotel suite is located deep in the bowels of an old mine.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

Before TV meteorologists, there were weather kiosks. This may be the last one in the United States.

An 18th-century townhouse that once hosted guests of the president.

An oddity shop filled with taxidermy, funerary memorabilia, and more.

How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?

Said to be haunted, this tower was constructed by a sugar importer as a gift to his wife.

The world's largest outdoor organ is played weekly by one of just two civic organists in the U.S.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.