Places jamescote Wants to Go

An abandoned NSA listening post on Berlin's "Devil's Mountain."

This decommissioned nuclear power plant offers tours of its Communist-era control room and reactor hall.

This hands-on museum houses roughly 80 vintage pinball machines and arcade games.

The U.S. Supreme Court's secret Cold War relocation facility in the mountains of North Carolina.

Who needs fancy modern water slides when this giant North Carolina rock works just as well?

The remains of the iconic train crash from the movie 'The Fugitive' can still be found rusting along the Great Smoky Railroad.

The scant remains of this flooded historic village can be explored in one of the most remote areas of the Great Smokies.

This road in the Great Smoky Mountains was supposed to assuage a displaced community, but ended up a $52 million dead end.

One of the last remaining pedestrian suspension bridges in North Carolina.

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

This giant radio telescope would be a rusting ruin if it hadn't become such a beloved relic.

The largest flower auction house in the world.

This site was constructed as a Cold War-era defense against a Russian invasion.

This former hydraulic laboratory is now a woodland dotted with old engineering models.

Repurposed space and ultra-modern construction collide to create this geometric wooden spectacle.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

Live out your childhood construction fantasies in this one-of-a-kind gyrating hotel.

This watchtower once presided over the Berlin Wall.

Tiny memorials honor individual victims of the Holocaust.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

This monument to those fallen in the World Wars is accompanied by a U-boat that Germany bought for a Deutsche Mark.

The only microgravity tower in Europe can produce nine seconds of weightlessness.

This 165-foot water tower has been supplying the residents of Varel with drinking water for more than a century.

Giant wind turbine with observation deck at the very top.