Places marcwithasea Wants to Go

A high school astronomy enthusiast designed this model of our solar system to be traversed on foot.

This impressive clifftop temple was once at the center of an international custody dispute.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

This Parisian fountain is a little bit fantasy and a little bit nightclub.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

In terms of history and architecture, this is one of the most remarkable cemeteries in the world.

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

A graceful natural rock formation stands astride the point where the Gulf of California meets the Pacific Ocean.

This cluster of little wooden huts once ground local farmers’ wheat into flour during the days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

One of the largest necropolises in the world is home to a stunning array of historic Middle Eastern tombs.

This former Imperial summer home was the venue for a royal slap that once echoed 'round the world.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

Every hour on the hour a naked heroine and her leering foil appear from this giant cuckoo clock.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

What if all public housing projects had been designed by "the Pygmalion of modern architecture," not only their prototype?

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

Three and a half miles of cliffs, rocky beaches, Gilded Age mansions and 40 Steps to nowhere in particular.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Colorful and chaotic stacked hotel in North Holland.

This unattributed sculpture in Amsterdam is hiding in plain sight.