Places cocron1 Wants to Go

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Deliciousness abounds at a Guatemalan restaurant masquerading as a pizzeria.

In the middle of suburban Staten Island, a nearly 150-year-old bakery is preserving the art of a disappearing New York treat.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

This beautifully preserved Ottoman house is steeped in history.

An Orthodox church inside a small "Garden of Eden" built by a man who had a vision.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

This beautiful 19th-century temple stands atop the ruins of its predecessor.

Go surfing on this urban wave, "hacked" by local surfers.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

Once the fallout shelter of a dictator, this sprawling bunker is now a combined history museum and contemporary art gallery.

King Ludwig I's collection of beautiful women.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

A bridge that has seen many reiterations over its lifetime.

These lights mark the area of Rotterdam that was bombed and burned in 1940.

This small museum located under the famous cube houses, is home to some 30,000 chess pieces.