Places sglesne Wants to Go

The Route 66 institution that inspired Taco Bell also served as an important headquarters for Mexican-American social movements.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

The last remaining houses of a bygone world immortalized by John Steinbeck in his novel “Cannery Row.”

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

A dentist's hated concrete colossi are now beloved icons of the community.

A beloved, quirky little fountain featuring a large frog spitting water at a naked boy.

Golden and naked, the figure that was once the highest point in New York is all that remains of the second Madison Square Garden.

A unique and controversial artifact of the early Turkish Republic.

Hidden in plain sight, this creepy sculpture watches from above.

A hundred copies of Antony Gormley's naked body stare out across the water.

This extremely naked God of Drunkards welcomes visitors to Kochi Station.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Roots and stumps that lay inundated for two millennia are on display in Japan's city of three mysteries.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.