Places mate Wants to Go

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

A medieval church built up to defend its village.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

In an area known in Bratislava’s postal history, this sculpture sits equipped with a functional postbox.

A museum dedicated to the former country.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This little museum is making sure that the art and history of the graffiti sticker is not scraped from history.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Sitting beneath an unremarkable residential building is a museum devoted to classic Pinball.

This unique bridge curls up like a caterpillar to let boats pass and then unfurls again to span a small canal.

The set location for a 1987 cult classic draws international film buffs to the middle of the Mojave Desert.

The unexpectedly beloved remnants of a controversial thermal power plant.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

One hundred years ago this small house in downtown Zürich became the birthplace of the Dada movement.

Nicolas Schöffer's massive interactive sculpture was assembled in 1961 and brought back online in 2016.

The inverted pyramid design of this station stands out amid Bratislava's urban landscape.

Putting the "mod" in "modular" since 2000.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

A collection dedicated to the treatment of disease, held in London's oldest hospital.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

This huge metal monument is slowly being stripped to its concrete skeleton.

Once a state-of-the-art tuberculosis treatment spa, these ruins are now ruled by paintball players.