Places jbuchli Wants to Go

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.

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

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

If you want to get married in the White Marble City of Ashgabat, you should do it in this surreal disco ball building.

The signs of a long buried road can still be found hidden beneath a London sewer grate.

There is only one place in the world where the corners of four nations come together.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

This Russian religious complex is a Frankenstein's chapel that includes influence from almost all the major faiths.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

The corpse bride of Portugal.

The "Little Ones," show Portugal in full miniature splendor.

One of the largest Roman settlements in Portugal.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

London's smallest police station is barely the size of a phone booth.

The shockingly unspoiled Peruvian tomb of the Lord of Sipan was once guarded by a footless warrior.

This water-tower-turned-high-end-apartment building was once the site of an early Nazi concentration camp.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

Like something out of a pulp adventure, this abandoned plane wreck is slowly being retaken by the Caribbean jungle.

The mouldering manses of wealthy colonials still pock the streets of a Curaçao neighborhood.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.