Places pattyannish Wants to Go

Wall to wall taxidermy at Denver's oldest and most exotic steakhouse.

The Denver airport is guarded by a 32-foot-tall sculpture of a demonic horse.

One of the greatest heroes of the Titanic tragedy came from humble beginnings to this beautiful home.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

Memorial stone for GWAR vocalist, depicted in his iconic costume.

Inspired by a foil-wrapped potato, (seriously) the Markel Building has been deemed one of the 10 ugliest buildings in the world.

The Pentagon is so large that it was planned like a city, complete with internal highway infrastructure.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The remains of a historic plantation nestled in between a parking lot and the rental car return at Reagan National Airport.

Soldiers were buried next to Lee's house in the center of Arlington Cemetery to dissuade the general from reclaiming his property after the war.

At 207 feet, one of the world's longest continuous escalators.

The biblical sculpture honors those who lost their lives, homes and communities to the Chernobyl disaster.

This former Roman Catholic Church still contains the embalmed hearts and organs of 22 popes.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

A Nesting Doll of Churches.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

Massive galleon from a box-office bomb docked in Genoa.

Old batteries and frog skeletons reside in this lakeside monument to Alessandro Volta.

These spooky and unusual stone formations create an underworldly landscape.

A breathtaking bridge that crosses a vast gorge over a river's torrents, and has a tale of a devil architect attached.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

The Swiss hilltop housed an early 20th-century vegetarian nudist colony.