Places emocosenza Wants to Go

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

The only home that Alexander Hamilton ever owned has a history almost as troubled as his own.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.

A lavender labyrinth so large it’s visible on Google Earth.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

This colorful theme park dedicated the official fruit of Maine serves sweet, tasty treats.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

The oldest pub in Ireland may also be the oldest surviving bar in the entire world.

Despite time, colonization, and the brutal New Mexican heat, these Pueblo ruins still stand.

Beyond the usual stories that attend old prisons, this one has deep bloody undercurrents.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.