Places danielrthorne Wants to Go

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Typewriter museum housing more than 1,500 machines preserves the history of the grandfather of computers.

A former French military respite turned jungle tourism hotspot.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

A gruesome memorial for those lost in this area during the Khmer Rouge genocide.

A museum of tiny buildings in the tiny country of Andorra.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

A battle between nature and architecture in the Cambodian jungle.

These rat eating Giant Malaysian Pitcher Plants may have evolved to eat shrew poop.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

Once an opulent Art Nouveau hotspot, the Constanța Casino is one of Romania's most beautiful abandoned buildings.

An art world insider finds himself battling for his artistic home.

One of the world's most complex timepieces.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Florentine Renaissance style building in Switzerland, home to the world's largest taxidermy Great White Shark.

Artworks by loners, prisoners and the criminally insane.

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

The maritime museum that boasts the largest nautical library in the western hemisphere.

The world's first museum dedicated to the work of game-changing naturalist Charles Darwin.

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

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.