Places ellenfbaum Wants to Go

A Hungarian pharmacy museum with a box full of mummy powder.

A surprising and unconventional mosque hidden in the subsoil of Istanbul.

An anonymous art project beneath Longfellow Bridge where hundreds of trophies line the steel support beams.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

Before online banking and smartphone apps, there was "commuter banking" in the subway in Downtown Brooklyn.

Devotional offerings and pleas for intercession are left at this Depression-era shrine inside a nature preserve.

Though the case is scorched and the buttons half-melted, this hardy handheld gaming device can still run a game of Tetris.

An aptly-named street near the birthplace of the modern LGBT rights movement.

This diesel train serviced the Brooklyn waterfront for more than three decades.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

An incredible collection of Mesoamerican art assembled by one of Mexico's great artists.

A few steps from the site of the Tlatelolco massacre, this museum tells the story of Mexico's 1968 student protests.

An inland seafood emporium makes more sense than you'd think.

An ancient stone fortress considered by many to be the eighth wonder of the world.

The world's tallest slum.

This unique depiction of the Virgin Mary may be the tallest kinetic art sculpture in the world.

A careful eye can find hundreds of dinosaur tracks running along the Connecticut River.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

An enigmatic mural hiding in plain sight in one of São Paulo's busiest metro stations.

Try not to get lost in this picturesque Brazilian labyrinth of the dead.

A comprehensive collection of Pez dispensers.

Breathtaking Byzantine paintings cover the inside of this 12th-century church.

The oldest Dutch colonial stone house in New York City is a hidden gem on the border of Brooklyn and Queens.