Places Ell Hughes Wants to Go

These abandoned grain silos and tunnels are an urban exploration dream.

During the 19th-century, this park was a vital trading fort.

One man's unrequited love stands in a glass box forever.

What was meant to be a temporary exhibit is now a permanent fixture at the St. Louis Zoo filled with beautiful birds.

The Magic House provides a beautiful and creative environment for curious youngsters to get their knowledge on.

A big museum full of little worlds.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

This is not your typical jungle gym.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

This medieval tower is all that remains of the castle where Joan of Arc was held before being burned at the stake.

This restaurant proudly displays bread signed by the 39th president.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

Travelers who fall victim to this mermaid's charms are destined to stay in Užupis forever.

Dolls of all shapes and sizes display the eras of femininity in this spooky and beautiful collection.

The celebrated eyesore created by starry-eyed sweethearts.

With a history of slaughter, feast, and famine, remnants of the pork industry decorate this area--even its church.

This innocuous-seeming building is actually the remnant of a major wartime brothel.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

These brass bunnies honor the rabbits that dominated the no-man's-land around the Berlin Wall.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

Floating swimming pool within a moored vessel.

The bunker where Hitler took his own life is hidden under this deliberately ordinary parking lot.