Places Saint Roughneck Wants to Go

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

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Eerie ruins of an abandoned medieval fishing village crumble atop an unforgiving stretch of earth.

This five-foot-tall bronze bird is a memorial to a species that was hunted out of existence.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

Iceland's tribute to its thankless civil servants.

An innovative attempt to break a siege in the American Civil War still scars the earth today.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

This small Japanese street is lined with figures, sculptures and a shrine dedicated to frogs.

Along the side of the road on a small Japanese island is an extensive garden of uniquely designed Shisa statues.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

A small storefront museum explores the history and myth of West Virginia's famous urban legend.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

There’s a hidden military meme engraved on the World War II Memorial.

The fountains of the U.S. Navy Memorial are annually salted with water from the Seven Seas as part of a nautical ritual.

A computer bug so primitive it was an actual insect.

Just outside the Naval Academy, Hell Point is a historical marker that could easily be the point where failed students wait for the bus.

Dedicated to a veritable Houdini among P.O.W.s who escaped imprisonment on five separate occasions.