Places carloswalker1977 Wants to Go

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This futuristic building is yet another architectural wonder in Dubai.

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.

On any given day this sprawling market houses literally tons of government-regulated gold, gems, and precious metals.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

It’s fun to stay at the YMCA… but at this London outpost, it’s even more fun to eat the Bombay aloo.

Eat and drink at a pub older than the Magna Carta

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.

The Jewish diaspora shares a menu at this museum café.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

This bridge is haunted by the ghost of a distraught mother.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

A sculptor's dream castle turned fantastical ruin.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

The approximate spot where the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar was put to death.

The historic Masonic Lodge in which the first-ever female Mason was initiated.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

This Parisian gem is one of the most incredible ethnographic museums in the world.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

One of the oldest masonic museums in Paris.