Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

An indoor miniature village and labor of love for Laurence Geiringer, a model railroad enthusiast.

The mummified relics of an American missionary.

A spectacular Neoclassical palace is home more than 15,000 artifacts and works of art.

The first handmade canoe built by members of the Passamaquoddy in over a century.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

A vibrant arts enclave in stunning red rock scenery.

A tiny Bergen museum where deadly substances, historical murders, and toxic curiosities share the same shelf.

A beautiful and tranquil place, home to a community of Benedictine monks and the resting place of Emperor Napoleon III, Empress Eugene and Prince Louis.

Probably the only remaining trace of a leprosy house in Wisconsin, reflecting a time when leprosy was uncurable and sufferers were isolated.

Frances Slocum was taken by Delaware Indians in 1778 and lived as, Maconaquah, a Miami Indian until her death in 1847.

The world's largest pin (or tack) is located in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, at the Transit Authority of Central Kentucky (TACK) headquarters.

What was once rural farmland owned by the Dominican Order is now an artisanal crafts market enveloped by Santiago’s urban sprawl.

A legendary West Hollywood bar where celebrities shoot pool with the locals.

An office building covered from head to toe in over eighty variety of plants

A giant shrine to Mexico's "narco-saint."

A carved figure embodying the palace’s pint-sized but protective spirit rooted in local folklore.

Remote beach reachable only by boat or a strenuous hike across a mountain.

A floating interfaith chapel made from ocean plastic.

A hidden hot spring in Singapore with a surprising history.

A James Turrell Skyspace located in the mountains of Colorado.

The author of Animal Farm and 1984 was born to a civil servant in British India.

A towering relic of Upper Silesia’s industrial past, the blast furnace of Huta Pokój stands as a monumental reminder of the region’s former role as one of Central Europe’s most important iron and steel production centers.