Places jddarcy Wants to Go

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

A striking, menacing sandstone peak towering above a landscape that's equal parts Mordor and the Moon.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A small oasis not far from downtown Moab.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

A prehistoric geological oddity tucked behind Stockholm's natural history museum.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

This London marker celebrates the spot where the world-famous English band was founded.

For the last century, this international border within a small town has appeared and disappeared various times.

Statue of a decomposing prince that once held his heart in its hand.

A clock designed to run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Seven mini rowhouses fill the gap between 54 and 70 Westerstraat.

If you dial the number in this abandoned office window "Sam Spade’s" secretary will ask you to leave a message.

The only parking meter in the entire town, it is surrounded by 100 free spaces.

An overlooked tribute to one of the most important peace deals in American history.

At a Bangkok bistro, one pot of beef stew has been cooking non-stop for more than 45 years.

One of the largest lenses of its kind ever created, this former ship beacon has been brought down to Earth.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

A playground inspired by differential calculus dangles from the ceiling of the Liberty Science Center.

Featuring the the longest lift span of any vertical-lift bridge in the world.