Places offworldwonder Wants to Go

This old-school café is famous for serving coffee, chilaquiles, and the Cuban Revolution.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

Visiting this cacophonous collection of vintage novelties is like stepping into the mind of a crazed toymaker.

The world's first crowdfunded skyscraper has not gone quite to plan.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Gods clash with machines in a power plant regenerated as a museum.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

Charles Dickens was not a fan of the ghastly wall dressings in this 6th century church.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

A unique opportunity to stay the night in retrofitted sections of sewer pipe.

This psychedelic tourist trap is a leisurely descent into madness.

Thailand's tribute to the original "Siamese Twins" Chang and Eng, in the town the famous pair was born in.

The vast chamber inside this abandoned cooling tower looks like something out of a sci-fi dystopia.