Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A museum showcasing fossils purportedly proving a 6,000-year-old Earth.

A movie theater, film museum, and cat sanctuary all in one.

Tucked away in a quiet corner of rural Nova Scotia, the first museum in North America dedicated to preserving the art of making rugs by hand.

One of the few Tudor palaces in Germany, which hosted a historic WWII meeting.

The ruins of the first mountaintop observatory are just a hike away.

Relaxed riverfront dive bar where you can also rent a boat.

This cave resembles the Star Wars Jedi master.

Perhaps the most storied New York City eatery, Delmonico’s reshaped American restaurants.

This astronomical visitor center is a wonderful mixture of science and art.

At 216 feet in length, this ornamental allium string is a feat to behold.

Home to one of the world’s largest nutcracker collections and other historical curiosities.

A sprawling historic mansion with connections to a notable industrial and publishing dynasty.

Once the largest source of mercury in the Americas, these ruins earned the name “Mine of Death.”

This park transforms Montreal's industrial past into a sustainable future, with glowing spheres that capture energy from beneath your feet.

Nineteenth-century cabins and volunteer re-enactors offer a window into history.

Explore nearly 200 years of guitar-making history

A volunteer-run museum showcasing Native American heritage, focusing on Lenape Indians.

Two gold-painted post boxes to celebrate a local Olympic gold medallist.

A historic vaudeville theatre that shows first-run films at a bargain price.

A World War II–era submarine museum where visitors can spend the night aboard.

Stand on the rim of a dormant volcano and gaze across a vast ash plain frozen in time.

Thousands of medieval skeletons lie just beneath Kranj’s main square.

According to legend, the Devil left a footprint behind after an epic showdown with a traveling priest.

All that remains of a vanished Michigan lumber town, remembered for tragedy, plague, and a witch’s curse.