Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

This 16-foot-diameter wooden coin has been standing in Iowa City since 2006.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

A massive stone fox oversees a Rotterdam elementary school crosswalk.

Past the hills and beyond the graveyard, this church feels extremely out of place.

An 18th-century hideout became a permanent and ongoing residence for one Lesotho tribe.

Come for the fried chicken, stay for the history at Oklahoma's oldest bar.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A lovely park home with a few interesting guests.

A Milwaukee museum provides an unsparing and ultimately empowering look at the Black American experience.

Banished from town, this local jester concocted a clever return.

This stately clock was gifted from China's last imperial government to the people of Mexico.

A former customs station on the border of Germany and the Netherlands.

A flock of peculiar-colored sheep graze in this small Swedish town.

The oldest liquor store in the country is a model of resilience and mischief.

If you fly into Edinburgh Airport, it's possible to spot this prehistoric site without even getting off the plane.

A bulky, ancient stupa marks the site of Siddhartha Gautama's seminal Buddhist teaching.

A train car sitting on a rooftop makes an unlikely and picturesque setting for dinner.

Drink and learn at this striking ode to coffee culture and history.

A handful of beehive kilns are all that’s left of a historic brick-making empire.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

A 1960s damming project turned one family’s hilltop cemetery into an island.

Erosion left these fascinating granite formations strewn across fields and mountains in Burgundy.

This record shop and unofficial black metal museum is an ode to Oslo's heaviest musical export.

A museum that chronicles the history of the Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war criminals in the building where the trials were once held.