Places Rescaper Wants to Go

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

Located in a beautifully restored ice house, this museum is the result of decades of hard work and devotion to the craft of plumbing.

A collection of 100 brains preserved in jars on the UT campus.

DIY collection of eclectic holdings.

The block of aged dairy is probably still edible after 2,300 years in a peat bog.

A Swedish farm is the world's only producer of the rare, creamy delicacy that is moose cheese.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

Made from local Irish moss, this pie is served only in Prince Edward Island's potato museum.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

Colorful lights and mirror-like brine pools create trippy illusions within the historic mine.

This picturesque mansion has gone from opulent ruin to nature museum.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

A dangling church built over a Colombian gorge.

This hidden gem is bathed in beautiful natural light.

A sixth-century Byzantine cistern hidden below a modern carpet store.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Standing proud atop a Turkish bluff, this Ottoman palace has retained its grandeur despite being abandoned for centuries.

Once described as the "Eagle's Nest," this ruined ancient city rests on a remote mountaintop.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.