Places Jfmcl Wants to Go

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

This Brooklyn curiosity shop has its own magic theater and a singing mechanical bird that sparked an online feud with Kelly Clarkson.

This innocent-looking townhome is actually a subway exit.

A station imagined at the speed of light, where familiar fixtures slip out of place.

Overlooking beautiful Rhossili Bay are the remnants of a former World War II radar station.

As the Royal Family's jam supplier, this museum displays relics from the two world wars, farm equipment, a four legged chick, and other curiosities.

An unexpected public exhibit showcases the diversity of Dutch street posts.

At 32 feet long, this swing is big enough for the whole family—and then some.

Long before wi-fi, this public seat provided the wonder of being online while outdoors.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

A remote gravestone on the moor marks the spot where a teacher's body was found under mysterious circumstances that remain inexplicable.

A beautiful Georgian church alongside the Thames has a crypt in the basement, in which are buried the bodies of the infamous American traitor Benedict Arnold, his wife Peggy, and their daughter Sophia.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.

The castle used by the Danish Royal Family as a hunting retreat.

This Scandinavian island is the site of the first modern observatory.

Legend has it that this church faced a troll problem, leading to the affixing of a stone face of Satan above the entrance to deter further encounters.

This tiny cottage was the birthplace of the father of the US Navy

In memory of a courageous Scottish missionary who was murdered in Auschwitz for helping Jewish girls

This former private hunting lodge is now the highest residential hotel in Scotland

A major Buddhist temple, monastery and study centre in southern Scotland

These ruins of a Gothic church hold the tomb of Princess Margaret, Lady of Galloway

A stone burial chamber that was also the site of religious rituals.

A Taiwanese garden teems with the retired statues of the island's former dictator.

A snapshot of Scottish folklore and magical heritage.