Places RecklessThor Wants to Go

This hidden garden boasts amazing views of Lyon.

Explore the 500-year history of silk-making in Lyon at this museum, workshop, and boutique.

This abandoned church in central Lyon is missing its front stairs.

Lyon's miniature version of the Eiffel Tower was built as a statement in support of French secularism.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A rare, flower-shaped example of Brutalist architecture in Switzerland.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

A display of magnificent stained glass windows is the first exhibit of its kind.

A hidden oasis just north of Chicago's Chinatown.

Kwanu'sila the Thunderbird has been silently watching over Chicago for more than 100 years (kind of).

Honoring the star of the “The Bob Newhart Show” which took place in the city of Chicago in the 1970s.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

This old-fashioned confectionary has been family owned and operated for more than a century.

This monument owes its name to a quote by the famous civil rights activist and journalist.

The last masonry skyscraper ever built reveals a transitional moment in architectural history.

During the French annexation, 36 prisoners were executed using this device.

On the side of a building, a depiction of the woman who became a local legend by tossing soup out her window.

Many people don't realize there’s a lot going on in—and below—the world’s tallest triumphal arch.