Places Rogier Wants to Go

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

This museum in a Paris apartment gives a unique look at the iconic French singer's life.

It was originally part of a "terrible lizards" collection at the 1964 New York World’s Fair.

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

This beautiful example of Victorian engineering is the oldest water-balanced funicular anywhere in the world.

More than 5,000 artifacts donated by the people of the city, plus a room entirely devoted to the band U2.

Eight naturally mummified bodies in glass coffins are housed in an underground crypt.

It's good luck to be mocked by this monkey.

An eccentric aristocrat brought these Australian natives to their current Scottish home.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

An impressive century-old, to-scale topographical map of Guatemala.

Hidden dwellings in the cliffsides of North Togo used by local Moba tribes to evade 18th-century slave traders.

A hidden tunnel of bones in one of Malta's oldest churches.

Ancient structures used to make and preserve ice in the deserts of Persia.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

A program of Communist glamour in post-Stalin Poland is preserved in this colorful museum.

This historic motel standing at the "crossroads of America" offers a radio in every room and was saved by local protesters.