Places NightSkye Wants to Go

With lush plants and flowers, huge trees, ponds, and hidden monuments, this place feels a bit like discovering Narnia.

This shuttered power plant is now Turkey's first industrial archaeology museum.

A blend of art, antiquities, and Americana fill this museum, surrounded by whimsical, enchanting gardens.

An expansive complex of subterranean tunnels is all that remains of one of Europe's most formidable medieval fortresses.

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

Once the local rulers had gone these enchanting ruins housed common folk in an almost real life fairy tale.

In Kazakhstan, a colorful cathedral with many lives once survived the most powerful earthquake in the region.

This Chase branch is an homage to Old Hollywood.

These two monoliths have stood at the entrance to the neighborhood since the days it was called "Hollywoodland."

Open since 1938, this diner has kept its fountain, malt machine, and all the gum that greasers left beneath its counter.

A small and surprising passageway in Saint Petersburg devoted to the Beatles.

The blinking light atop the iconic landmark has been sending secret messages for decades.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

Hundreds of handmade critters fill this tiny window gallery in the heart of Portland's Alberta Arts District.

This small museum in a 17th-century building honors three iconic Scottish writers.

This beautiful deer park was built so King Charles I and his court could go hunting while escaping a deadly plague outbreak.

The current Eureka County Courthouse replaced an all-wooden structure that had previously been an ice-skating rink.

The final resting place of the hundreds of bodies originally buried where Badin Lake sits now.

The housing complex served as an anti-fascist fortress during the Austrian Civil War.

A 13th-century inn where the ill-fated King Charles I spent his last night of freedom.

The NBA player's elaborate former home is now a ghost of its old glory.

This neo-Gothic monastery offers a rare chance to witness the unique maned wolf right up close.

It appears as if a man is standing behind this giant airport clock, painting the hands in real time.