Places phildzielski Wants to Go

House of vintage taxidermy and Steampunk sculptures in a quiet Pittsburgh neighborhood.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Pittsburgh's literal underground railroad.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

Disturbing works of outsider art, carved from whole logs.

A stone in Wolin, Poland, marks the possible location of a legendary Viking fortress.

This symbol of Polish heritage survived the occupation during World War II, hidden in plain sight.

Come to this Polish museum to take a good, clean look at filth.

An artificial hill and apparent calendric structure built in the Early Middle Ages immortalizes a legendary Polish princess.

This antique thermometer honors the creator of the first universal temperature scale.

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

An impressive monument to Poland's independence.

A marker honors the brief peace found by a tormented artist in the fictional land of Kcymaerxthaere.

Gliwice Radio Tower, likely the tallest wooden structure in the world.

Old cabin-like homes in a rural community untouched by time are known for their vibrant and colorful window shutters.

One of only two places in the world where two rivers cross each other without the waters mixing.