Places renott Wants to Go

The first museum dedicated to exploring humanity's cultural relationship with the celestial world.

The oldest funicular in Lithuania has been climbing this steep hill since 1931.

A narrow strip of land is home to the tallest migrating dunes in Europe.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

This natural crater along the coast of Jersey may take its name from the devil statues who have watched over it.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

Nuclear waste experts study this prehistoric crater lake to envision landscapes one million years in the future.

This intricately spiralling forest was created as a monumental work of art.

A little-known sculpture park of contemporary environmental art in a Lapland forest.

This insurance company building reminds customers that witches, bears, and gnomes are out there, best be insured.

This endearingly discomfited urinating statue commemorates the sneaky pees had by us all.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

Over 100 towers were built in Bologna during the Middle Ages, but only 22 survive.

It's 2 billion years old!

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

The house that Frank Lloyd Wright "(shook) out of his sleeve at will" at the age of 86.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A beautiful oddities shop crammed with strange and morbid curiosities.