Places reimiro Wants to Go

A nondescript Seattle restaurant inherited a piece of European history.

An exercise in patience and imagination, where Mother Earth turned common stuff into precious hidden treasures.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

A memorial to a larger-than-life legend, inside a county that also holds Bunyan's death certificate.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Historical figures from New York City's Catholic community reside in Midtown.

It was once used as a classroom to teach mining skills to local high school students.

This oddity shop contains everything from antique tools to a human skeleton.

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

People in Poland have rallied to save this unnatural desert from being reclaimed by the forest.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

A miniature desert appears out of nowhere on the lush isle of Lemnos, like something out of a Greek myth.

Once the site of speeding horses, now home to picnickers and public concerts.

A lonely Gondola stuck on a traffic circle sits in a spot where it once would have floated down the Grand Canal.

One of the best collections of antique printing machinery in the world.

A quirky collection of figurines backdropped by city views is hidden next to a popular restaurant in the Hollywood hills.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A memorial in coal country commemorates the victims of an all-too-preventable mining disaster.

This Croatian island is for sale but no one is buying due to the dozens of accused Nazi sympathizers who were massacred there after WWII.

Croatia's towering concrete blossom grows from the site of a World War II concentration camp.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.