Places Erin Wants to Go

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.

The extravagance of Portugal’s "Pink Palace" resulted in a noble title being awarded to its owner.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This historic streetcar system has been running since the 19th-century.

Castle and secret tunnel withstood a siege until its owner was killed by the Holy Roman Empire, while sitting on the toilet.

Its diverse collection of computers and technology spans the ages.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

The Ryerss mansion in Burholme Park now houses a community library and a museum filled with a trove of oddities from around the world.

This underground transport hub doubles as an art gallery.

The attic of a four-century-old canal house hides a clandestine church.

A unique collection of gilded age mechanical pianos.

Despite violent work crews and massive delays this abandoned canal tunnel was built to last into the modern day.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

Hikers can still stroll beneath the long conveyer of this abandoned mining facility hidden in a West Virginia river gorge.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

Taxidermied cartoon heads, unseen illustrations, and famous characters all reside in this small gallery space.