Places Rachaelannmare Wants to Go

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

Three hundred years of preserved Spanish colonial history in San Antonio.

Ruins of a once-opulent grand Victorian resort.

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

One man's remarkable private collection of art from around the world.

This architectural beauty is the home to a personal collection of more than 600 examples of mechanical musical instruments.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

The last municipal pneumatic post system in the world was in operation for over 100 years, and may run again.

Microscopic scenes; some call it novelty, some call it art.

A museum of alchemy and a basement laboratory all housed in an ancient building in a Gothic tower.

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

This immaculate and historic water garden culminates in a massive stone dining table with an inset fountain for chilling the wine of the Cardinal's guests.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

Beautiful views and Roman-style statues on the Italian coast.

The world's oldest surviving anatomical theater, where "the dead are pleased to help the living."

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.