Places immatthewpelton Wants to Go

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

The local community brought back this land to transform it into a nature preserve.

137 graves holding New England's earliest residents.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Outside San Francisco lies a small clown cemetery and memorial.

An ancient Phoenician citadel once stood at the site where Queen Dido first landed, according to legend.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Two mermen, eternally spitting into each other's mouths.

You’ll feel like you’ve gone through the looking glass at this contemporary art museum filled with glass sculptures of every size, shape, and color.

It's believed a local adventurer spent 50 years living inside this cave.

Near this coastal cave stands a small memorial to the hermit who made it his home for three decades.

Thousands of bottles that have held everything from poison to perfume make up the collection of this small museum.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

This giant wooden treehouse within a sprawling garden has its own eatery.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

Eat like a bird in a bamboo nest.

A train car sitting on a rooftop makes an unlikely and picturesque setting for dinner.

An oddly poignant roadside attraction celebrating American folklore.

The home made famous by the 1983 holiday classic is now a perfectly preserved shrine to the movie.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.