Places elainehart Wants to Go

Meant to resemble a massive tree, the building is the best example of Spanish organicist architecture in Madrid.

Kingly French toast comes soaked in milk or red wine, then drizzled in a citrus-perfumed syrup.

This small and often-overlooked museum holds some of Spain's finest artistic treasures.

This macabre masterpiece of a mural is one of Francisco Goya's "Black Paintings."

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

Hidden under a center for the elderly are the dungeons which were used during the Spanish Inquisition.

A secluded art gallery hidden within the cellars beneath Tallinn’s medieval monastery.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

An alien church provides much needed silence in the midst of a Finland shopping center.

A working miniature city designed to teach kids about safety and presumably city planning.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

This stockpile of junked electronic and mechanical gadgets is a favorite among Hollywood prop masters.

The stone-covered graves lie within the ruins of an Old West ghost town.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

This secret collection of the strange and occult was rediscovered in a forgotten room of an old house.