Places miramarco Wants to Go

This half-finished "city of toys" was almost Italy's own Las Vegas.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.

Thousands of rusting train cars have been slowly falling apart on the edge of Greece's second largest city.

A preserve with 75,000 ancient drawings remains the realm of public – not just scientific – exploration.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

This abandoned subway station can still be seen on regular commuter trips.

The “Thumb” of Mauritius provides a 360 degree view of the entire country.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

Italy's curious field of mud volcanoes is named for being both gross AND salty.

Tucked away in a small German apartment is an eclectic museum devoted to West African vodun culture.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

Housing a morgue, rare and confiscated weapons, and autopsy remains, the Vancouver police museum displays the dark side of Canada.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

Museum celebrating the achievements of the Soviet space program.

Museum design and public transportation meet in this unique Russian train car.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

Magnificent Roman ruins lie vulnerable to destruction on the edge of the Mediterranean.

Home to some of the oldest hominid fossils ever found.