Places eharjes Wants to Go

This fairytale castle was built as a show of power but was nearly torn down thanks to its history of torture.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

This ghost town in Belgium will lose its street art when it ceases to exist.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

Part modern art project, part traditional chapel, this see-through church is only substantial from the right angle.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The former home of the reclusive "Weird Wendels" who dominated New York real estate a century before Donald Trump.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.

Everyone from Mark Twain to Teddy Roosevelt has a pipe hanging from the walls of this historic chophouse.

The 28-foot granite map plots the locations of 40 theaters in New York City.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

Amid the marketing blitz of modern Times Square is an elegant holdover from its showbiz glory days.

The famous facade of Grand Central Terminal hides a regulation tennis court—and it's not the first one.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.