Places Ruthless1040 Wants to Go

From grand battles to daily life, this Spanish museum offers a view of world history in miniature.

Glasgow’s piece of the patron saint of love.

The world's oldest surviving music hall was also once a freakshow.

This stately monument has been wearing a traffic cone hat for decades much to the delight of the locals.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Tucked away inside a historic Savannah hotel is a hundred-year history presented in ladies' lids.

Climb this overlooked gem's spiral staircase and you'll be rewarded with spectacular views of Glasgow.

Wayne Newton's sprawling estate is now open for visitors to catch a glimpse of his "heart and soul."

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

This brightly made over hotel hides decades of suicide, serial killers, and mysterious deaths.

Come for the pizza, stay for a performance on the world's largest theater pipe organ.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

This eclectic Austin curiosity shop is home to all things strange and unusual.

This tall and trim architectural oddity is one of the skinniest buildings in San Francisco.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

This historic national park is covered in the stunning ruins of red rock pueblos.

An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.

One of the largest open-pit copper mining operations in the entire country.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.