Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

This tranquil urban park has a violent history.

A treasure trove of material within the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems has spawned the world's first and only center for academic study of the horror genre.

A door-hating guardian spirit presides over this mountain where one of the largest religious festivals in Georgia takes place.

Secluded wading pool with small waterfall and lovely nature.

This is where all crows in the surrounding region come to roost from the entire Lower Mainland of Vancouver.

A striking symbol of the Troubles, this semi-demolished prison was home to the largest prison escape in the history of the British Isles.

The beautifully tiled, hidden resting place of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan’s wet nurse, tucked away behind a bustling railway track.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

Despite being built 50 years ago, this housing estate's unconventional design gives it a futuristic, sci-fi aesthetic.

A small, archaeology park outside Settle in the Yorkshire Dales with ruins of the impressive Hoffman Lime Kilns and an informative trail which explains the industrial history of the site and leads you to other ruined structures.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

The lesser-known of just two Japanese Gardens in Ireland stands as a memorial to an obscure but fascinating travel writer and journalist

A 400-year-old ruined palace on top of a hill, overlooking the sleepy village of Al-Ghayl, some 300 km south of Riyadh.

An evolving artwork that began in 1996 and is scheduled to continue until... 2496!

An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.

This quaint river crossing is the last car-suitable wooden bridge in the Swiss canton of Valais.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.

This museum holds the most comprehensive collection of Armenian art in the world.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.

Once a WWII supply tramway, it's now a popular & steep hiking trail.

This grand old Chinese medical facility has been restored and reopened to serve its original purpose.

A crypt of relics guards a vial said to liquefy each July