Places MeRiz Wants to Go

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Four miles of pipelines form the model of still-functioning retro-tech efficiency.

The sacred shrine of the Yazidis.

A collection of over 2000 air-moving devices of all kinds displayed in the Fanimation headquarters.

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

One of the shortest streets in York has an especially odd name.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

A mapping error in the 19th century made loggers think this section of the forest was underwater.

The California capital city once stood 10 feet lower than it does today.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

Thousands of abandoned statues of deities are taken to this hillside in southern Hong Kong.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

Hundreds of thousands of ancient documents offer a unique glimpse into Jewish life in Cairo.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

People have been living in the cave houses on this Italian hillside since the Neolithic era.

Citizens of Norway want to gift the peak of Mount Halti to Finland for its 100th birthday.

Grotto replete with mystical designs laid out in glued shell mosaics.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.