Places elemenope Wants to Go

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

A collection of modern and vintage pinball machines housed in the cellar of a 15th-century building.

Where the "World Pinball Champion” is crowned.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

Tucked among the sand dunes overlooking a Welsh beach, a real-life tribute to a fictional elf.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

This scrap yard doubles as a naive art gallery full of found art and farm animals.

A wild west cemetery in Tombstone, Arizona, provides a window into the Old West.

An old saloon in the West filled with history, and according to some, a few dozen ghosts.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

Collection of vintage trailers double as hotel rooms.

A living snapshot of a different time in America is preserved and maintained by a community of volunteers.

A family agreed to sell their property to Disney on the condition that this tree, planted as a wedding gift, would not be removed.

Inspiration struck on this seat outside the Griffith Park merry-go-round.

The lead horse on a Disneyland merry-go-round that is older than the park itself.

The traveling wares of Denmark's most famous author.

This ultra-modern wooden boardwalk turns the ocean into a swimming pool.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Hide from the tourist hordes in these relatively unknown, and unguarded lava caves.

An unremarkable wooden wheel built into the side of one of Rome's oldest hospitals was part of a policy to reduce infant exposure.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.