Places OnlyManWhoCan Wants to Go

This church houses the tomb—but not the remains—of St. Nicholas, the likely progenitor to Santa Claus.

A Lycian city of the dead carved into the hillside of Southern Turkey, complete with startlingly human touches.

A collection of full-size movie monsters opened to the public.

80 years of the Battle of Peasholm on a small English lake.

Believed to be the longest railway bench in the world.

The "Rocky Horror Picture Show" character has a hidden camera that broadcasts people doing the "Time Warp."

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.

The bartenders at this crime-fighting theme cafe are actual private detectives by day.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

A quirky bookstore hidden beneath a sea of whitewashed Greek villas.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

A museum dedicated to the legacy of Bob Moog and his pioneering synthesizers.

The world's oldest family-run magic shop is hidden beneath a bustling London thoroughfare.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The final resting place of the living embodiment of the famous Forest Service symbol.

Be on the lookout for the symbolic insect all over the city.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

A Victorian mansion, painstakingly reproduced to appear just as the the Munster's family home did on TV.

The multinational Burger King chain is banned from operating within 20 miles of a family restaurant filed under the same name.