Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

This Austrian museum celebrates the work of famous forgers and their inimitable imitations.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

Visit this small Mexican church to pray to a mushroom that is supposedly marked with the image of Christ.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

A city built from mud and known as the "Manhattan of the desert."

This 12,000 year old Iranian cave village has been continuously inhabited for over 3,000 years.

An angular maze of concrete in Grand Rapids acts both as public art and as a staircase for fish traveling upstream.

The ruins of a Massachusetts prison farm can still be found crumbling the woods of a state park.

A typical crusty old museum this isn't.

The world's only three-story rotary jail is now a museum to a bizarre trend in prison design.

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

The bomb-ravaged remains of of a colossal Neptune.

The oldest church in the Estonian capital is home to over 100 fantastical cemetery coats-of-arms.

The world's second-largest sundial, made entirely out of stone.

This collection of solar timekeepers includes the world's first digital sundial.

Fascinating museum dedicated to the under-appreciated medical history of urology features some wince-inducing devices.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

One man's quest to collect artifacts from every aspect of human life has resulted in this eclectic Argentinian museum.

Hidden within a Netherlands crater is a stone bed that lets those who lie in it see the sky as a curved surface.

This impressive tunnel was dug entirely by hand over the course of 36 years.

These crumbling Nazi artillery bunkers are now fair game for massive graffiti projects.

These ancient ritual mounds are our best window into the culture of the ancient Mississippians.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.