Places NixOfNowhere Wants to Go

This theme park presents 5,000 years of Shanghai history and includes a "sunken" exhibition hall.

A replica of the first seismoscope ever invented.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

The 14th-century ruins are said to contain healing powers.

Dating back to the early 12th century, this is the first Augustinian priory established in England.

A remarkable example of small town medieval architecture that showcases the wealth and importance of a 16th-century wool town.

Hundreds of huge, centuries-old horseshoes adorn the walls of this nontraditional 12th-century castle.

This former sewage pumping station is now a fascinating museum.

This park features a wooden causeway preserved since the Neolithic era.

Armenia's premier center of astrophysical research was established during the Soviet era.

An observatory with a 54-meter-wide radio telescope sits in the mountains of Armenia.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

Rivers of cattle blood gone, a strange Escheresque building remains, the last of its kind.

Underground monastery and fortress.

These ruins of a Soviet children's railway station have a haunted atmosphere.

A natural wonder with mythological ties to the local Ainu tradition.

An intricate ceramic tile facade adorns this five-star hotel.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

The marble facade hides a little-known medical museum with early surgical instruments and rare copies of canonical texts.

Go inside to really appreciate this 500-year-old technological masterpiece.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

Those who own or stay at this 500-year-old, allegedly cursed house often meet terrible fates.