Indio, California
Shields Date Garden
A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.
219
Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
McLean, Texas
Devil's Rope Museum
The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.
Groom, Texas
The Leaning Tower of Texas
This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.
Amarillo, Texas
Cadillac Ranch
A sculpture made of 10 Cadillacs as a monument to the “Golden Age” of the American automobile.
Permanently Closed
Amarillo, Texas
VW Slug Bug Ranch
A small car graveyard sits in the shadow of the famous Cadillac Ranch.
Dayton, Nevada
The Republic of Molossia
The smallest country in the world.
Seligman, Arizona
Delgadillo's Snow Cap Drive-In
A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.
Huntington Park, California
Saydel Inc.
Where religious effigies, magic soaps, and occult candles are brought to customers at wholesale prices.
Oswiecim, Poland
Auschwitz Concentration Camp
The former Nazi Germany concentration camp stands as a museum to remember this dark chapter in European history.
Kutna Hora, Czechia
Saint Barbara's Church
An enormous and lavish Gothic church in Czechia.
Vienna, Austria
Hundertwasser's Odd Architecture
Op-art architecture designed for happiness.
Vienna, Austria
Vienna Grand Ferris Wheel
Vienna's giant wonder wheel had a starring role in one of the greatest noir movies of all time.
Bratislava, Slovakia
UFO of Bratislava
This spaceship sculpture in the middle of the Slovakian capital looks like it just crash-landed.
Permanently Closed
Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Mostar Sniper Tower
A former bank seized as a sniper vantage point during the Bosnian War is now a secret graffiti art gallery.
Sofia, Bulgaria
Alexander Nevsky Cathedral
A striking symbol of the Bulgarian capital.
Brașov, Romania
Strada Sforii (Rope Street)
This snug medieval lane is one of the narrowest streets in the world.
Bran, Romania
Bran Castle
The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."
Sinaia, Romania
Peleș Castle
This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre
Home of the unusual art of water puppetry, one of Vietnam's oldest curiosities.
Hanoi, Vietnam
Hỏa Lò Prison
The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.
Vĩnh Thạch, Vietnam
Vịnh Mốc Tunnel Complex
This network of tunnels housed an entire village for years, and even had a hall for screening movies.
Bangkok, Thailand
Amulet Market
Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Curzon Hall
The fight to make Bengali an official language started in this stunning university hall.
Mandalay, Myanmar
U Bein Bridge
The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.
