Places GerhardM Wants to Go

A granite monument honors a beloved World War II canine mascot.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Once a 19th-century brasserie, this McDonald's exterior celebrates Alsatian design and the "King of Beer."

Eat your Big Mac in a DC-3.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

This outpost of America's most popular fast-food restaurant is housed inside a palatial mansion.

This restored Portuguese cafe may well be the most beautiful place in the world to grab a Big Mac.

This fast-food outlet is the only space and UFO-themed McDonalds in the world.

When the town wouldn't allow the fast-food behemoth to build a new restaurant, they put one inside an 1850 home.

Inside this McDonald's you can dine on your Big Mac and fries next to a 2,500-year-old Roman wall.

The site of the little-known Pennsylvania battle that sparked the Seven Years' War.

Pennsylvania's highest point is spotted with boulders which were pushed to the surface by nothing but cold.

Collection of trolley cars in the woods represent one man's attempt to preserve transportation history.

A dozen U.S. presidents have stayed at the historic resort, which was known as James Buchanan’s “Summer White House” from 1857-1861.

An abandoned stretch of highway, deteriorating next to the operational one.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.