Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

This foolish Victorian sea fort was converted to a deluxe hotel.

The restored ferry is now a dockside museum and a unique bed and breakfast.

In the 1930s, a mysterious murder shook this Northamptonshire village–the identity of the victim remains a mystery to this day.

A new monument to an old grave that was uncovered during the rebuilding of a California ghost town.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

The 1940s structure houses what was once Europe's largest telescope.

Finland's oldest astronomical observatory once played a crucial role in seafaring and timekeeping.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.

This old medieval prison tower has been a site of astronomical research for more than 250 years.

This ancient Chinese observatory still contains early astronomy technology.

This historic observatory was established to keep shipwrecks from littering the Cape of Good Hope.

This observatory within Europe's first dark sky park offers stunning views of the night sky.

The Chilean mountain is freckled with (relatively) small European telescopes.

The haunting ruins of a military fortress turned astronomical observatory sit on a Sarajevo mountaintop.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

This futuristic observatory at the top of the Pyrénées offers unrivaled views.

Erected in 1803, it is the first astronomical observatory that was built in the Americas.

This impressively complicated radioastronomy research center was once a tool of Soviet spies.

This giant dish located in a sheep paddock was the primary receiver of Apollo 11 TV transmissions.

One of the few places of its kind, this space research center sits deep in the countryside of Matera.

The nerve center of a massive, state-of-the art radio telescope that sprawls across Western Europe.

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.