Los Angeles, California
The Good Ship Grace
This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Los Angeles, California
This ship-shape Streamline Moderne building was once the headquarters of a nautically inclined radio preacher.
Forest Park, Illinois
Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.
Vienna, Austria
This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.
Budapest, Hungary
A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.
Saint Paul, Minnesota
A museum within a museum, devoted to history's most questionable medical devices.
Paris, France
The personal library of the founder of modern neurology is open to visitors.
Leeds, England
The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.
Padua, Italy
The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."
South Shields, England
Eat fish and chips in a striking Neoclassical building that once hid a public lavatory.
Matakana, New Zealand
A serene, almost spiritual place to do one's business. Who knew a public toilet could inspire and awe?
Hendersonville, North Carolina
This hands-on museum houses roughly 80 vintage pinball machines and arcade games.
Eskişehir, Turkey
This harrowing memorial remembers a murdered investigative journalist.
Asciano, Italy
Stumbling upon this whimsical wooded garden is like stepping into an enchanted forest full of philosophical musings.
Tokyo, Japan
A bizarre philosophy-themed park founded by an occult expert.
Namibia
Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.
Odry, Poland
Deep in a Polish forest, this collection of Iron Age megaliths still holds onto many of its ancient secrets.
Darmstadt, Germany
Crop circles inspired this whimsical garden in Germany.
Urubamba, Peru
Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.
Wadi ad-Dawasir, Saudi Arabia
These desert alfalfa farms redefine the meaning of crop circles.
Tokyo, Japan
The 650 red and white Japanese plum trees of this Tokyo neighborhood blossom each spring.
Tampa, Florida
The larger-than-life art installation at Tampa International Airport welcomes travelers to town.
Moscow, Russia
Its front wall is striped with a menagerie of fantastic beasts and magnificent monsters.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cat art as far as the eye can see.
Paris, France
Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.