Places junkrat0 Wants to Go

Old signage above the doors of a church with an amusing backstory.

Chicago’s incendiary role in the labor movement.

Among Europe’s most spectacular Ice Age painted caves still accessible today.

From a 1930s bathing beach to a 1970s dumping ground, this stretch of Buenos Aires is now its largest and wildest reserve.

The unlikely Art Deco shrine to marbrite, a vanished glass.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

Cross towering trestles and tunnels on a historic canyon rail trail.

A storied British pub where customers leave messages in the walls.

A tribute to the riders who bridged East and West.

An Amsterdam School landmark combining a museum and social housing.

The tennis legend became the best in the world (partly) thanks to practicing against his garage door, now on display in a museum near his childhood home.

An ancient burial site that lights up with the winter solstice.

5,000 years of East and Southeast Asian art in the heart of Bath.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

A stunning modern interpretation of a Roman temple.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

A celebration of Norwegian independence, or public art gone wrong?

One of the world’s oldest surviving convict prisons, once the scene of daring escapes and riots.

Evidence of a bullet that nearly killed King Charles I—or is it?

This landmark building, from notable Los Angeles architects, is being restored.

Burgers and fries in the shadow of a dreaded Nazi symbol.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

While this monument tile is shrouded in mystery it also marks the end of the longest ever human chain.