Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

The great Danube river starts here.

A folly built to satisfy a gentleman's bet that he could drive his horses through the eye of a needle.

Once the supplier for noteworthy projects like the National Cathedral, this old brickworks now lies abandoned.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

An Anglo-Saxon cross inscribed with possibly the oldest written work of English literature.

The 55-pound trichobezoar was removed from the stomach of a cow.

This jewel of an engine is one of Northern England's finest surviving legacies of the Industrial Revolution, even catching the eye of Henry Ford.

A nostalgic bibliographic gem.

Sleep in a climate-controlled plastic bubble for the night.

One of the largest sculpture collections in the U.K. features history's greats, from Bob Dylan to Galileo, in bronze.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

A blank headstone topped with a pile of pennies marks the final resting place of the infamous assassin.

An eccentric millionaire's personal curio collection includes at least one shrunken head.

Antique frame collection with 2,400 frames.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

The "dragon babies" of southeastern Europe.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

How did the right arm of a 13th-century English bishop wind up in a Connecticut church?

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.