Places pikatrushka Wants to Go

This miniature Paris, built out of trash, is one man's two decade labor of love.

The fantastic architectural models of a French traveler.

Theme park featuring miniature replicas of European monuments.

Large miniature theme park with 100-plus models.

A 1:20 scale piece of the Netherlands commissioned by a queen lets visitors take a stroll as giants.

A quarter-scale locomotive wonderland built by one man and his family.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

Legends of time travel and magical woodland creatures bolster the natural charm of this verdant sanctuary in the midst of Moscow.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Take a steam-powered ride straight out of the past on this Appalachian rail line.

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

Rusting railcars and locomotive equipment fill this Ethiopian train graveyard.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

Disused seaplane hangar gets a second life as the jaw-dropping home of Estonia's museum of maritime history.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

The remains of this ancient fortress atop a manmade hill look as though they were built into a volcano.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

Austria's ultra-modern art museum looks like Cthulhu's giant alien heart.

The spiral staircase hidden inside this giant Parisian column was likely built for Catherine de Medici's astrologer.