Places iellwen Wants to Go

St. Augustine's record-setting narrow street was designed to protect against pirates.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This small museum is basically a time capsule of daily life in the Soviet Union.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

A sobering scientific reminder of the human damage caused by the advent of the nuclear age.

A former top secret nuclear fallout shelter now operates like a hotel stuck in the Cold War.

Open-air cremations in Colorado's self-proclaimed spiritual mecca.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

A research lab and hands-on museum where visitors can experiment with retro technology.

What happens when a sculptor has to find a way around a 100-year-old copyright.

Antiques shop filled with all manner of curious collectibles.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.