Places rachael1006 Wants to Go

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A colorful statue honoring the local salmon in glass and bronze.

Old submarine parts have been converted into faux whale fins.

This gold-winged spire celebrates the first true flight around the world.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

Located right outside of Vienna, visitors can take in expansive views of an ethereal forest.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

Legends surround an ancient tree trunk riddled with nails for good luck.

A patriotic medieval knight in driven-nail armor raised money for widows and orphans of WWI.

A spherical "micro-nation" in the heart of Vienna.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Museum devoted to the artificial language of Esperanto.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Apartment complexes built into huge repurposed natural gas tanks.

Hundreds of hopeful gold miners came here to get rich, but only two years later the small town was deserted.

Venice's "Island of the Mad."

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

The world’s largest knitted mitten is displayed in one of Sweden’s smallest Arctic villages.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

The oldest amusement park in the world has been providing a nice spot to have some fun since the 1500s.