Places platyjule Wants to Go

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

The first purpose-built art gallery in the United States is once again open as a center of craft arts.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

A Neolithic burial site built 1,000 years before Stonehenge.

The last physical evidence of the Lewis and Clark trail is one of their autographs etched into this giant rock.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

A wax effigy of St. Valentine hides one of the saint's relics.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The remains of an ancient Roman teenager are memorialized at the base of a modern London landmark.

The site of London’s first coffee house has been serving refreshments of one kind or another for 360 years.

A silly medieval mural preserved on the side of a Viennese house.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A crucified and bearded female saint.

A 400-year-old mummified arm dangles from the ceiling of St. James the Greater, serving as a warning to thieves.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Despite centuries of architectural innovation, this French castle is being built like it's the 13th century.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

Some of the saint's blood and bones are said to reside in Dublin.