Places escapementality Wants to Go

Possibly the world's largest coin stands just outside of a Canadian science center.

A cozy cafe tells the remarkable story of how one man started with a little red paperclip and wound up with an entire house.

This mundane shopping plaza is named after a gruesome piece of flotsam.

This natural wonder is disappearing at an alarming rate.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.

Historic site where Native American hunters once trapped and killed buffalo.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

Home inspired by the crystal rock formation of the Emerald Estates.

Surprisingly delicious Asian-style hot dogs.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Fossils, railroads, and waterfalls!

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

This Art Deco masterpiece has stood in for some of the most famous buildings in comic book history.

One of the most controversial statues in Romania is an emperor with no clothes.

Check out engineering marvels of the past at this unintentionally retrofuturist museum.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

A small memorial to a deadly night in Serbia that shook the world before it was swept under the rug.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

A Serbian church lit by chandeliers made of weapons.

Destroyed Serbian army headquarters sits half crumbled in a largely revitalized Belgrade.

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.