Places oliviaauriat Wants to Go

An amusement park on the grounds of an unused nuclear power plant, with a swing ride inside the cooling tower.

A failed Russian themed village and amusement park in Niigata prefecture.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

Russian history in San Francisco.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This underground power plant looks more like a super-villian's lair than a public work.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

In the midst of a living monument to Soviet social engineering, Polish Catholics built this church by hand.

Did Gustav Eiffel design this enigmatic metal building?

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

The interior of the Overlook Hotel in "The Shining" was based on this Yosemite original.

Since 1920, one small company has defined the distinctive chairs of Paris' sidewalk bistros.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

It looks like a whale, it's part of Yale, and it's best-known by a nickname you can probably work out for yourself.

This tiny cafe is one of the last meeting places of its kind, allowing revolutionaries a place to plot.

Noirish green neon marks the location of one of the oldest private detective agencies in France.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This bronze sculpture on a former squash court marks the secret origins of the Atomic Age.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

Stalin's prisoner-built rail line sits in ruin, never having a single car ride its tracks.