Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

This is the real-life “Phantom of the Opera” box from Gaston Leroux's 1910 novel.

A $600,000 pile of stainless steel balls makes for some rather divisive public art.

One of the only places where you can pay respects to George Washington and Abraham Lincoln as gods

One of America's largest retirement communities has its own history museum

A giant map of western Canada laid out in rocks

This log cabin is all that remains from the first European settlement in Utah

The biggest outdoor modern mosaic in Madrid

This popular shopping mall and eatery once provided scant comfort to sick colonials and seafarers

Amazing tiled map mural showing the lines of the famous Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, incorporated into the war memorial after WW1

This carillon clock features three figures that mark the start of the city’s most important celebration, the San Juan Festival

These sculpted heads on the outside of a former Knights Templar building date back to the 17th century

This giant, unfinished suburban cathedral was meant to be the Canadian seat of the Slovak Greek Catholic Church

The largest rainforest in southern Africa was only discovered by conservationists thanks to Google Earth

These stairs, seemingly disappearing into a wall, once tempted some students into petty crime

A mysterious, almost perfectly circular floating island gyrating inside a likewise circular lake

One of the last remnants of an ancient town wall

University pranksters set up this jumble of telephone poles and steel wires overnight

A short walk up a small hill provides spectacular sunset and nighttime views of Kowloon

A rare statue representing a monk who peeled off his own face to show divinity

Looking like something out of a fairytale, this tiny house was built over a stream to avoid paying land taxes

The cathedral's live rooster and hen symbolize a renowned medieval miracle associated with Santo Domingo de la Calzada

Near where the ill-fated Terra Nova expedition launched, there is a monument to 'Scott of the Antarctic'

These murals, created by UCM students, were granted legal protection in 2003 to prevent their deterioration

This atmospheric cavern on the hillside above picturesque Rydal Water is actually an old slate quarry