Places Richard F Wants to Go

This abandoned boat sits on a nude beach, is shaped like a UFO, and is covered in graffiti.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

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 edible park is open to any and all foragers.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A unique work of automotive art calls this shopping center home.

This collection of 20th-century toys is filled with a lifelong personal toy collection brought from the U.S. to Amsterdam.

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

Three connected pink triangles memorialize persecuted gays and lesbians throughout history.

This subterranean studio is filled with fascinating kinetic art.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A serious museum dedicated to two German comedians.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

The industrial monstrosity known as Bagger 258 is a colossal mining machine built in the DDR - but now left for dead in a German field.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.