Brooklyn, New York
Art of Play
This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Brooklyn, New York
This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.
Tallinn, Estonia
A bronze memorial to Tallinn’s most famous, and most elusive, stray dog, erected while he was still alive.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Oslo, Norway
At one of Oslo’s most-visited buildings, few notice the painting that has mocked its architect for 70 years.
Kerma Albeled, Sudan
The best-preserved example of a unique structure in Nubian architecture.
Paris, France
The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.
Évora, Portugal
A 16th century chapel decorated with bones, skulls, and entire bodies hanging from the wall.
Great Barrington, Massachusetts
The ex-church that inspired “Alice’s Restaurant” is now a vibrant community center and folk music venue.
Sydney, Australia
How a replica of a legendary Florentine fountain became a tireless fundraiser in the Southern Hemisphere.
Rome, Italy
This beautiful park on the outskirts of Rome protects the ruins of two colossal ancient aqueducts.
Havelange, Belgium
All websites claim that the origin of this obelisk is both unknown and mysterious. However, adding a single piece of information solves the mystery entirely.
Eureka, Missouri
This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.
Rīga, Latvia
A bare tree in Riga’s Esplanāde is transformed into an extraordinary vertical neighbourhood by scores of colourful bird nesting boxes clustered across its trunk and branches.
Asmara, Eritrea
One of the country's largest cinemas that is not part of the tourist trail.
Mount Vernon, Ohio
A fountain full of 18 bronze-cast dogs, a cat, a pony, some birds, and a mystery apple, all because one guy and his golden retriever saw a photo online.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
The only place to get cash in Antarctica.
Hurricane, Utah
A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.
Mesquite, Nevada
A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.
Moapa Valley, Nevada
A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.
Reno, Nevada
A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.
Skull Valley, Utah
A 1920s navigation arrow for airmail is preserved right off Interstate 80 near the southern edge of the Great Salt Lake
London, England
The world’s first permanent museum dedicated to female genitalia.
Odessa, Texas
One of only two exposed meteor impact craters in the United States
Mesquite, Nevada
The junction point of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, resurveyed and remonumented in 2016