Places lostslav Wants to Go

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.

A small island less than half a mile from Venice is a forbidden island with a dark and twisted past.

A newspaper editor turned this abandoned island into a tortoise nature preserve that's now the world's smallest national park.

Tiny communists hammer away on the Olomouc Astronomical Clock.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.

A neolithic tomb converted into a tiny chapel.

"World machine" built by an untrained Austrian farmer.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

The world's largest solar furnace uses 10,000 mirrors to concentrate the sun's rays to generate power.

Started nearly 100 years ago, this science experiment just keeps on going, ever so slowly.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

America's only nuclear missile silo open to the public.

One of the world's largest Tesla coils.

Outstanding collection of 19th century medical instruments includes a life-size figure cast from as many as 200 cadavers.

Huge concrete structures designed as an early warning system for Britain to detect enemy aircraft.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

Mystic Incan rock piles three miles above sea level.

The largest known medieval map of the world.

The earliest known map to show America, discovered by accident at a Paris bookshop.