Places futuriana Wants to Go

Perhaps the most unique of any Frank Gehry design for one simple reason: Gehry himself actually lives here.

On a quiet suburban street stands a peculiarly decorated house covered in mosaics.

From pre-war whiskey cocktails to prohibition-era speakeasy secrecy, this bar has seen it all.

Legendary prop shop filled with one man's collection of scientific curiosities.

Santa Monica's oldest restaurant, decorated with set pieces from the Mutiny on the Bounty.

In one Santa Monica parking lot a mushroom cloud made of chains heralds a message of peace.

A treasure hunter's tiny bar, harboring celebrities since 1959.

An ornate and disused early 20th-century building has been given new life as a fully operational structure, complete with offices, oyster bar, and a furniture retailer.

For part of the year, this innovative greenhouse is painted white to keep the plants from getting scorched.

This Victorian-era public house has set the standard for pub-style elegance for over a hundred years.

Journey through a mesmerizing array of board games inside this museum.

Vienna's underworld of tunnels and subterranean rivers made an iconic appearance in a 1949 Orson Welles film.

Visiting this café is like visiting the Austrian grandma you wish you had.

Royals, rebels, and artists have all conversed at this grand 19th-century Viennese coffee house.

A rooftop restaurant hides in plain sight atop Vienna's Palace of Justice.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

A mechanical clock built in 1914, with a rotation of 12 historical figures on its face.

Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.

There were once more than five stones in this ancient monument.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

Ship-sized kinetic sculptural fantasy.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.