Places Shiv Wants to Go

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

This speakeasy continues the Prohibition-era legacy of Harlem's jazzy Swing Street.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

This portrait of Philip V is always hung upside down, in a protest three centuries in the making.

This peculiar Italian elevator runs both horizontally and vertically.

This Arab fortress was once the largest citadel in Western Europe.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

A lovely look back at the manufacture and use of paper in all its forms.

This hidden stone has absorbed decades of human anxiety.

Buy a token from the liquor store and you can make this beast spew flames on command.

This lesser-known geographic marker was the reference point for all surveys of the continent for 75 years.

The enormous appendage offers spectacular views of Colombia's Huila Department.

The dining hall that nourishes workers in Chornobyl's Exclusion Zone is also open to visitors.

The striking and little-touristed ruins of an ancient city destroyed and rebuilt by the Aztecs.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

An oasis of shade and color amidst the bustle of the old city.

Building owners can take out tiles for free at this repository for historic building materials.

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The enormous smoke hides within a little known, semi-secret exhibit inside Havana’s Morro Castle Historic Park.

A replica of the home of a famous fictional troll family.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

Not for the faint of heart, this long pedestrian bridge rewards those who brave the wobbly walk with a beautiful view.