Places lostslav Wants to Go

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

The world's largest rotating world.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

To the great disappointment of doomsdayers, this codex merely contains records of the Moon and Venus.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

Unusual rock formations eroded into a landscape of stone beasts.

Unfinished monument to peace between Turkey and Armenia, long divided by a dispute over genocide.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

A Turkish monastery tucked into a cliff wall.

Broken Catholic cross now worshiped in the voodoo faith.

A monument to the sheer amount of oddities one can collect over a lifetime.

A museum dedicated to the exploring past, present, and future innovations.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

A good place to research the Freemasons, esoterica, occultism, and hermeticism.

One of Europe's oldest libraries.

Leaf through over 30,000 artists' sketchbooks in what may be the world's largest collection of doodles