Places NightSkye Wants to Go

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

Dozens of lights dangle from the branches of what may be the brightest tree in Los Angeles.

Bored potato-guarding Nazis etched their thoughts onto a brick storage building in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District.

Along a busy beachfront strip you may hear Frank Sinatra singing from one boardwalk home.

The taxidermy remains of the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell are on display in Edinburgh.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

The charming storybook building now houses a small police museum.

Go through the looking glass in Tokyo's Wonderland-themed shop.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

An odd and heartwarming stone marker enshrines the moment a community saved a farmer's pig that fell in a well.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

A museum dedicated to the history of psychiatric treatment featuring a gallery of art made by patients.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

The "plyscraper" is the world's tallest building made predominantly out of wood.

A cylinder monument with a spectacular vista commemorates a friendship that some say never existed.

The antique hotel still has a jail in the basement, though the cockfighting ring is long gone.

One of the earliest bowling lanes in the U.S. doubled as a sewing school during a time when women had little job opportunity.

The notorious couple camped at this site after a bloody shootout with police.

This deserted Gold Rush town is home to a Masonic lodge that, strangely enough, still holds meetings.

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A hamlet full of permanent Christmas spirit holds one of the earliest theme parks in the United States.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.