Vienna, Austria
Gasometer Town
Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.
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Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Vienna, Austria
Sigmund Freud Museum
The former private quarters and office of Dr. Sigmund Freud now hosts a museum housing the works of the founding father of psychoanalysis.
Reykjavik, Iceland
Monument to the Unknown Bureaucrat
Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.
Aveiro, Brazil
Fordlândia
Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.
Washington, D.C.
The Highest Court In the Land
There just so happens to be a court even higher than the U.S Supreme Court: a basketball court in the building itself.
Washington, D.C.
Water Gate at the Watergate Complex
Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.
Washington, D.C.
Memorial to Japanese-American Patriotism in World War II
An unassuming, powerful monument north of the U.S. Capitol bears witness to the resilience of Japanese Americans during a time of grave injustice.
Washington, D.C.
Defense Intelligence Agency Museum
Amid the sprawling Defense Intelligence Agency Headquarters is one of Washington's least accessible museums.
Washington, D.C.
Watergate Steps
Decades before the scandal, this staircase on the river was a literal "water gate."
Washington, D.C.
Peirce Mill Spy Station
Cold War intelligence agents monitored communist embassies from an attic in a former pigeon coop.
Washington, D.C.
St. Elizabeths Hospital
Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.
Washington, D.C.
The Cuban Embassy's Hemingway Bar
When it opened during the final years of the embargo, all the drinks and cigars were free.
Washington, D.C.
The Old Patent Model Museum
During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.
Washington, D.C.
International Spy Museum
Home to items never before seen by the public.
San Francisco, California
Mescaline Grove
A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.
San Francisco, California
Institute of Illegal Images
A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.
Paris, France
Foucault’s Pendulum
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
Centre Pompidou
An "inside out" building in the historical center of Paris, featuring Europe’s largest modern art museum.
London, England
Café in the Crypt
This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.
Tokyo, Japan
Museum of Package Culture
Discover the past, present, and future of packaging in this unique Japanese museum.
Tokyo, Japan
Godzilla Head
Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.
London, England
The Oval Space
This former medical factory gives home to cutting edge arts in the shadow of a gas works.
London, England
Isokon Flats
An exercise in radical design and social living that became the epicenter of Soviet spy networks in London.
London, England
S.O.E. Monument
A bronze bust commemorates the heroism of the secret agents who led covert operations against the Nazis.
