Places miramarco Wants to Go

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

A wunderkammer of mysterious objects and stories.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

The last remaining example of the boatmen's perches that once dotted the south bank of the Thames.

A model of a galactic embassy is hidden in plain sight along the highway, proposed by a UFO religion to find the aliens that created life on Earth.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Admire the art and then buy a raccoon skull cleaned by flesh-eating beetles.

Fragments of architectural wonders from around the globe are embedded in the newspaper building's walls.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

A public display of random paleontology.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

Residents of Fremont in Seattle have considered it the center of the universe since the 1970s.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

Before Nixon, "watergate" meant canals.

You can cross from one country to another in a single hop on this little bridge.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.