Places Ell Hughes Wants to Go

A font of vintage porn on the silver screen.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

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

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

Described as "the world's most blinging pool."

On the small Thai island of Ko Mak, there is a forgotten garden of erotic statuary.

One of the last free public hot springs is decorated with hippie art.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

A museum has some wedding cake dating to the Teddy Roosevelt administration, and some bacon from FDR's.