Places karin66204 Wants to Go

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

The fungus-shaped vintage gas station has served multiple purposes over its lifetime, and now serves ice cream.

A failed piece of Orientalism has become the proud symbol of a community.

Lovingly nick-named the "Brick Dick" this municipal tower was winner of the World's Most Phallic Building Contest.

This charming colonial alleyway is one of the oldest continuously used residential streets in the U.S.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

St Bernard de Clairvaux Episcopal Church, better known as one of the oldest European buildings in the Western Hemisphere.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

The last of the 19th-century booze-free bars has been slinging teetotal tonics for over a century.

Once a train station along the Great Eastern Railway this vibrant coffee shop and bar is where members of London’s creative class mingle.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

A preserved block of timber buildings from the city's industrial era in the Middle Ages.

A glorious pub known for a spiteful printing feud and its famous typeface lost—then found—at the bottom of the Thames.

The smallest pub in Britain was once a cabinet of curiosities and it still has the dead cat to prove it.

This 15th century pub is one of only two pubs in England situated on consecrated ground.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

Mary Kelly was last seen here before she was murdered by Jack the Ripper.

A friendly pub with a sordid past in cock fighting.

The oldest inn in England served brew to the crusaders.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.