Places nekokat Wants to Go

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

The world's smallest drawbridge.

A beautiful maze marks where three countries meet.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.

Stalin's march toward a more modern USSR flooded a monastery, leaving a unique and extravagant nautical marker, "The Flooded Belfry."

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The remains of a ruined mansion memorialize the 1906 earthquake.

This bridge is embedded with a giant steel dragon that breathes fire from its mouth.

This church in Pittsburgh is home to the largest collection of religious relics in North America.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

A self-built mosaic house and sculpture park.

The National Railway Museum in York is the largest railway museum in the world, attracting almost 1 million visitors per year.

Traveling collection of amazing automata.

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

A celebration of capitalism in Midtown.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

A historic 1890s architectural masterpiece with an iconic clock tower that, once open to the public, now faces an uncertain future.

Phil Mortillaro uses keys to bring art back to the Village.