Places Sauerbratan Wants to Go

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

This pyramid in southern Sweden houses the remains of an eccentric nobleman, who spent his life doing whatever he felt like doing.

This railroad track was so secretive that it was omitted from all maps.

This Swedish automobile graveyard is a beautiful gallery of decay, but woe be to any who would steal a souvenir.

A peat bog in southern Sweden provides a cozy and photogenic home for junked Volvos, Saabs, and the occasional American muscle car.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.