Places michaelroelli Wants to Go

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

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

The strange phenomenon causing gravity to "work backwards" on this hill has been blamed on the paranormal.

A labyrinth hides in plain sight at each of the city's 270 Tube stations.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

19th-century scientists would make the pilgrimage here to verify the precision of their measuring sticks.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

True to its name, this bouncy walkway may be the world’s smallest suspension bridge.

One of the world's largest automobile junkyards is a unique landscape of metal and moss.

A domino effect created with Britain’s iconic telephone boxes.

A closed London rail station created to cart away the dead still bears the marks of attempts to make it less morbid.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

The final resting place of a space program monolith, soon to be unveiled again to the public.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.