Places Mark H Wants to Go

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

This 20-foot-tall sculpture is in honor of the herd of bighorn sheep that call Radium Hot Springs home.

A roadside attraction fit for a giant.

The oldest natural history museum in western Canada houses more than 5,000 vintage botanical and zoological specimens.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

This contentious squat has stood through fire, violence, and government intervention as a hotbed of leftist protest.

Hamburg's first legal sex work is relegated to a gated street that still does not allow pedestrian women.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This red light district plaza memorializes the Fab Four and their historic connection to the area.

A mammoth WWII anti-air defense tower has been repurposed as a hotel with a rooftop garden.

Straight out of a nightmare, barcode-faced babies climb up and down Prague's television tower.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

An Orwellian sculpture with eyeball cameras watches passersby.

An extensive collection of reliquaries containing the bones of saints housed in the largest Catholic church in Venice.

Ancient snack bar of the Roman Empire re-opened.

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

Erotic art covers the walls of the largest ancient pleasure palace.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

The Vatican's secret porn-festooned bathroom was painted in erotic murals by one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance.

The Pope’s secret escape route.

Rome's first modern graffito is all that is left of a peaceful protest from the 1970s.

A symbol of Texas pride.

One of the last Art Deco gas station still standing in Dallas.