Places norby1411 Wants to Go

This quaint Italian town keeps losing ground as the sides of its plateau slowly erode.

A town saturated in Italian rationalist architecture was once marshland drained by Mussolini.

This pun was simply waiting to come to life, and one defense contractor made it so.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Tucked away in the Leiden city hall are a group of works by famed artist MC Escher.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This hidden natural fountain issues forth a steady supply of supposedly healing water that tastes like rotten eggs.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

Just another terrifying garden filled with hundreds of endlessly smiling doll people.

Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.

This neo-Gothic former auto showroom is one of the few remaining reminders of Brooklyn's "Automobile Row."

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

The ruins of a once massive plantation are now a private residence hidden in the Florida wilderness.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

This colorful artistic feature atop a Danish art gallery allows visitors to stroll through a rainbow.

In this tiny Iranian town playing on the roof isn't just encouraged, it's the only place to go.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

Once the most flame resistant building in the country, the South Carolina Historical Society building was almost burnt down in a fire.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.