Places janellegunther Wants to Go

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

This ultra-modern home clings to the slope of the Hollywood Hills on a precarious stilt.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

The oldest residential street in Europe also features an optical illusion.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This centuries-old hotel hides a network of secret cellars and passages once used by smugglers.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

An abandoned 1930s gas station turned bustling neighborhood park.

If there's another drive-through golf-cart bar in a bat-filled cave on top of a mountain, we don't know about it.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

A tree-like building perches on its trunk in the Steglitz neighborhood of Berlin.

Super-heavy Nazi architectural experiment.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

On the Spree bank, discover one of the last reminders of a symbolic wall that divided, and was torn down by the people.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Blitzkrieg bop your way through Berlin's Ramones Museum.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Puppet theater and museum holding a collection of more than 300.