Places Joe Wants to Go

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

This abandoned Brutalist treehouse is a hidden architectural relic.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Remains of the artificial harbours invented for the Allied invasion of Normandy can still be seen at sea.

A memorial to the nearly 10,000 American soldiers laid to rest on the beaches of Normandy during WWII.

The Lone Star plaque hangs in a bombed-out bunker in Normandy to honor a Texan colonel's heroic actions on D-Day.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The industrial architecture honors the laborers who brought the Exposition Universelle of 1900 to life.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

This charming, hidden guild museum holds some 700 years of crossbow history.

Head underground and take a tour of the city's working sewer system, and see the underground river Senne, which defined Brussels for centuries before being covered in the 19th century.

This modern arts center is built around a gem of late-Baroque architecture.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

This collection of over 50 murals celebrates Brussels' rich history as the self-proclaimed home of the "comic strip."

Cozy basement bar sports an inventory of over 2,000 beers.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

The compass on its front was a handy tool for 17th-century merchants who needed to know the direction of the wind.

Potato-peeling mannequins, Inca art, and a dangling tuber mobile help trace the history of fries at this Belgian museum.