Palo Alto, California
Birthplace of Silicon Valley
A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Palo Alto, California
A humble garage, world-famous for being the epicenter of a technology revolution.
Genoa, Italy
The "Mona Lisa" of funerary art.
New York, New York
An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.
Flagstaff, Arizona
A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.
Budapest, Hungary
A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.
Florence, Italy
Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Berlin, Germany
Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.
Prague, Czechia
Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.
Olomouc, Czechia
A cheeky reminder about the value of art dangles above one of Olomouc's busiest streets.
Manětín, Czechia
Thirty creepy ghosts now inhabit this decaying 14th-century church.
London, England
An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.
Denver, Colorado
In a dry, neglected cemetery lies the unassuming grave of a soldier vilified in life but celebrated in death.
Bellvue, Colorado
The wreckage of a World War II bomber is hidden high in the Colorado wilderness.
Turkmenistan
A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.
San Simeon, California
The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.
San Jose, California
A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.
Paris, France
This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.
Paris, France
One of the last umbrella repair shops in Paris upholds the nostalgic art of umbrella making.
Paris, France
A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.
Paris, France
Statue of death tucked in the University of Medicine courtyard.
Paris, France
Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.
Paris, France
High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.
Paris, France
Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.