Places RecklessThor Wants to Go

Where two rivers meet—but don’t mix.

An opulent monument built for a duke who donated his entire fortune to the city of Geneva.

The world's largest second-hand graces a clock surrounded by constantly changing flower beds. 

One of the longest wooden benches in the world snakes around Geneva's Treille Promenade.

This colorful but controversial ceiling has been likened to a 21st-century Sistine Chapel.

The skeleton of a whale that beached itself in this Irish town is now on display in their public park.

Designed by Alfred Caldwel, this landscape showcases his vision of a native garden.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

Orthodox church partially financed by Tsar Nicolas II.

Over 1,000 pieces of one of the most niche art objects imaginable: the glass paperweight.

These mansions date back to Chicago's days as a brewer's paradise.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Bibliophile's Dream.

An outdoor urban gallery of large-scale artworks by the world's most influential street artists.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Cemetery featuring rare glass-fronted columbarium.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

A gothic church spire sits atop this skyscraper, the tallest church in the world.

Chicago's largest cemetery is full of beautiful Victorian monuments and more than a few ghost stories.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

This architectural wonder of Mexico City houses several art schools and national research centers.