Places Nistar Wants to Go

This street was the filming location of the iconic flying bicycle scene from “E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.”

The world's second-largest toy production company has a lineup of its heroes outside

This bookstore for weird fiction doubles as Providence’s de facto center for information about H.P. Lovecraft.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

Every hour the doors open to reenact the legend of the heroic mayor who saved his town by drinking a gallon of wine.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

This Prague museum collects brutalist relics and memories from the country's former Soviet rule.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

A treasure trove of material within the University of Pittsburgh Library Systems has spawned the world's first and only center for academic study of the horror genre.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

The forbidden island of the Tuscan Archipelago may still contain buried treasure.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A derelict hunting lodge that was once the site of aristocratic debauchery.

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

Napoleon’s home in exile, decorated with poisonous wallpaper.

The largest Christian church in the country is a complicated symbol of Spanish colonialism.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

This mountaintop observatory is home to one of the world's largest reflective telescopes.

A shrine-like museum entirely dedicated to soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo.

A micronation on an islet along the coast of a Portuguese island.

This glass skywalk offers vertiginous views down the volcanic cliffs to the beach below.

Legend has it the lovelorn tears of a princess and a shepherd boy formed the blue and green twin lakes in the Azores archipelago.