Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A museum dedicated to the legacy of writer P.L. Travers and her most beloved character, Mary Poppins.

This alley in downtown Chicago held the bodies of over 600 people after the fateful Iroquois Theatre fire.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

A big museum full of little worlds.

A collection of incredible clay crafts, complete with earthen skeletons and mermaids.

This massive geographical sculpture is so subtle, it's possible to pass by it without noticing.

A mysterious and endangered parasitic herb from the California desert.

Small and slightly hidden, the American Writers Museum is preserving the legacy of America's finest authors.

The only remnant of a small mining town is an abandoned railroad tunnel that is steeped in ghostly lore.

An abandoned asylum incorporated into a college campus.

A decaying, yet still functioning, work of communist architecture.

A Korean rock bassist's wild dream has become a reality at this completely insane boutique hotel.

This historic building is now home to the Public Access Corporation for the District of Columbia.

Once one of the largest producers of pig iron in the world.

This little-known memorial honors those who have donated their bodies to medical training.

A unique book shop with a collection of rare tomes and a nostalgia museum.

This historic house museum that celebrates one of the world's most influential social reformers is also one of the most haunted locations in Chicago.

Turtles swim in a pond surrounding a classical temple in this lush park in Vicenza.

A thought-provoking outdoor art installation sits in the seat of German law.

The Siege of Naarden ended in 1814, but the cannonballs embedded in the town church remain.

A 26-foot tall roadside concrete pillar recalls a yet-unresolved 1997 political massacre.

A roadside music shop featuring a confounding series of folk art installations.

The centerpiece of the Delta Blues Museum is a wooden sharecropper’s cabin that once housed a titan of blues music.

The oldest active juke joint in the state sustains a niche school of blues guitar.