Places bryanwoerner Wants to Go

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

The elegant manor house where Kaiser Wilhelm II lived in exile after World War I.

An abandoned, desolate train tunnel that was used during World War II.

In the middle of one of South America's most historic walled cities lies a bar with an enormous collection of Soviet memorabilia.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

In the Valley of Morelos lies a mysterious Olmec site with signs of jaguar veneration.

The world’s highest ski resort was deserted after an 18,000-year-old glacier melted away.

This cliff-face port is considered a masterpiece of mining engineering.

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

Home of a 28-foot tall stalagmite known as the War Club.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This quaint funicular has been ferrying people up and down an English valley since the Victorian era.

A bullet-scarred monastery chronicles Mexico's turbulent history of foreign invasions.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

The "Bridge Over the Atlantic" lets you cross the waterway in mere seconds.

The Russians still use the transmitter Nazis built during World War II to communicate with submarines.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

A stunning medieval castle houses this eclectic, interactive tribute to all things wine.

Visit a replica of the estate where Aaron Burr allegedly plotted a treasonous scheme against the United States.

Plans for this local observation tower were debated for so long, the allocated funds lost value and the design had to be changed.

A free display of artistic lifesize dinosaur sculptures in a backyard garden.