Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

This house was largely built out of hundreds of thousands of discarded glass embalming fluid bottles.

A small museum of antique transport that's a must-see for bicycle lovers.

Archduke Ferdinand II's collection of rare objects is considered one of the oldest museums in the world.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

A small, fascinating fire museum hidden in plain sight in an administrative building.

An old World War II hangar holds 20 vintage aircraft and the rare opportunity to take a ride in a 1940s warbird.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A logging-themed roadside restaurant surrounded by museum-quality machinery and artifacts from the industry's heyday.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

The only Native American museum along the Oregon Trail, run by the peoples who have lived on the land for generations.

Britain's only artificial surfing lake is nestled in the beautiful mountains of Wales.

A diminutive plaque recalls the treetop sniper who almost killed Abe Lincoln.

A 200-year-old bar with a cheeky name claims to have served Edgar Allan Poe his final drink.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

These molds for fiberglass statues have formed an eerie, accidental sculpture park.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

The world's largest washing machine collection has more than 1,400 antique items in its exhibit.

A young state senator's deathbed plea to be buried inside a rock resulted in this unusual grave site.