Places HoboPal Wants to Go

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The site of the first "historically true" UFO encounter in the U.S.

The former residence of Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman, an enslaved African-American woman who successfully sued for her freedom.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

A beautiful mountaintop mausoleum devoted to a Montenegrin icon can't seem to make everyone happy.

A house covered entirely with shells.

This medieval synagogue survived the Inquisition as a hospital and church.

An underground spring in a labyrinthine cave system, decorated with stalagmites and stalactites.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

Spain's stunning solar energy plant.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

See Malta’s history through the recreation of scenes of torture using life-sized mannequins in a former medieval dungeon.

The ruins of a megalithic monument sit right in the garden of a luxurious Maltese resort.

At more than 5,000 years old, these structures are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

The little church's beautifully frescoed ceiling has earned it the nickname “the Sistine Chapel of Madrid.”

Strange masks and obscure costumes are housed in this old Madrid corrala.

This embalmed man is one of the best preserved mummies from the Canary Islands.

A reproduction of the famous prehistoric cave paintings is hidden underground at the National Archaeological Museum.

The only urban monument in the world designed by the great surrealist painter Salvador Dalí.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

This giant sculpture recalls a famous passage from “Alice in Wonderland.”

This tree, over 500 years old, was planted by Columbus’s son.