Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

This Cheshire museum has cuckoo clocks, a rare pipe organ and vintage motorbikes. But mostly cuckoo clocks.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

Dedicated to the unsung history of human waste.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

Elaborate hand-carved wooden clocks two brothers made in their spare time are on display at this handsome little museum.

A quiet memorial to those who died saving others in the heart of the City of London.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The humble horn finally finds a place in the sun.

Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.

A museum dedicated to the silliest fruit.

An elevator into the Baltic Sea.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

Cave carved out of a huge snow drift collapsed killing one and injuring five in July 2015.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

This open air cathedral invites all faiths to worship under the only roof big enough to fit them all: the sky.

Destructive children, start your engines.

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

The self-mummified monks of Japan.

Second largest wastewater treatment plant in the country.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Where the oil industry began.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.