Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

On high feast days, the entire blue-glass front of this modern church opens up to reveal the small wooden church inside.

One of Antoni Gaudí’s earliest buildings, built between 1886 and 1890 for the industrialist Eusebi Güell.

Sharks, stingrays, and turtles swim in the pools at this former elementary school.

A museum of space exploration in the UFO capital of Japan.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

This Buddhist temple is home to a number of towering statues spread over a peaceful wooded park.

Underneath the historic center of Mexico City, the remains of a temple dedicated to the Aztec god of the wind.

In Rome’s Jewish ghetto, a 200-year-old bakery still makes the neighborhood’s historic sweets.

In 2008, this Mexico City metro station was the site of an hours-long fight between emo, punk, and goth groups.

A deep toxic lake fills this abandoned open-pit copper mine, now a Superfund site.

This structure, built more than 60 years ago to manage devastating seasonal floods, is known to attract a rare species of freshwater dolphin.

A shining memorial to a Belgian hero is said to bring luck to anyone who touches it.

This Gold Rush ghost town was once the subject of a territorial dispute between California and Nevada.

This sprawling art park is filled with sculptures, nature trails, and art workshops.

This combination shop and museum is filled with curious items and artifacts.

The ruins of a military outpost from the 1860s form the centerpiece of a Nevada state park.

Every summer, the Mendenhall River greenbelt comes alive with an explosion of magenta flowers.

Opened in 1947, this is the oldest continuously-operating drive-in theater in New York.

You can spot this teeny tiny stained-glass window from the Bonifacius bridge.

A monument honoring those who died in the Great Famine of Ireland.

These were the largest wind chimes in the world when artist Tom Van Sant created them for a California mall in 1967.

For decades, the largest tungsten producer in the U.S. was located in a spectacular setting in the high Sierra Nevada, with some of the workings over 11,000 feet.

The Lund University's former gym houses a museum focusing on the creative process of art.

A limb from Indiana's largest sycamore tree on record.