Places Eliza Wants to Go

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Now housed in a museum, this giant pink elephant stood in downtown Seattle for more than 60 years.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

The last occupied troglodyte dwellings in England weren't abandoned until the 1960s.

These steps offer a breathtaking view of one of Europe's most besieged fortresses.

Hidden behind a gate in Greenwich Village is a little farmhouse that once served as the writing studio of a bestselling author.

Order “Proletariat’s Cutlet” at this communist-themed restaurant allegedly once visited by Lenin.

At 929 pounds and 26 feet tall, this stainless steel fork can only be used by the likes of King Kong.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

Vines grow up the metal bars in this public park created from an old machine factory.

Video games, body language, and postal history are all on display in this Swiss museum.

Natural history museum displaying a famous taxidermied St. Bernard.

Extensive private collection of authentic Medieval devices used for human torture and execution.

One of the world's largest collections of pharmaceutical artifacts.

Along the Rhine, about a mile from the historic Munster, learn the heartrending story of two lovers torn asunder, cast into unknown layers of time and space.

A horse statue that receives constant makeovers from graffiti artists and locals.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.