Places hornlr Wants to Go

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

A historic covered bridge, only one of two remaining in North Carolina.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

This fallen red oak tree has been transformed into a piece of trailside art.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

German-style coffee and cake, just like Oma used to make it.

A delightful but little-known public observatory and planetarium in Munich.

The scars of World War II are preserved on its walls.

Among the ostentatious rococo ornamentation of this church, an image of death cuts the life-thread.

This tribute to the 16th-century composer is now an unusual shrine to Michael Jackson.

Golden cobblestones remember a time when this small alley was used to avoid having to give a Nazi salute.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

Oddly enough, a pair of Wolfs funded the construction of this Little Red Riding Hood sculpture.

This Czech church doubles as something of a permanent fashion exhibition for a statue of the Infant Jesus.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

Around 100,000 bodies are buried below the medieval headstones, many of which mark graves with multiple bodies stacked up to 12 deep.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

What looks like a suicide in progress is actually a statue of Sigmund Freud.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.