Places nellieray Wants to Go

The charmingly disheveled clock tower of Tbilisi's puppet theater.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Destruction from Armenia's 1988 earthquake inspired an artist's sculptures of scrap metal.

A museum dedicated to traditional Armenian clothing and their designer.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

This little medieval church hidden in the center of Yerevan was lost and rediscovered—twice.

This medieval manuscript collection has some of the most obscure and ancient texts in the world.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

The first American department store, and home to the largest operating musical instrument in the world.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

Fast food feels like fine dining at this award-winning modern Georgian building.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

These structures were inspired by both Native American shelters as well as, strangely, an ice cream shop.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

Hamburgers are intensely proud of their tunnel beneath the river.

This brick-lined pedestrian walkway was once a railway tunnel used during the Civil War.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

The three colorful women depict characters from a beloved children's story.

This magnificent arch is all that remains of a former smelt mill.

A museum dedicated to secret surveillance.

These huge glacial erratics are humorously named after a much much smaller bird.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Walk or bike along a narrow strip of Belgium sandwiched by German territory.