Places Mariano Wants to Go

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

This sculpture by artist Fritz Keonig survived the 9/11 attacks and now stands as a monument to the victims.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

This exemplar of modernist architecture is meant to captivate and inspire students of the Cooper Union.

The most confusing clock in New York.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

The central mosque of this Mali town is entirely built from mud.

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