Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

This eccentrically decorated palace is replete with grottoes, fountains, tunnels, and caves.

This whimsical fountain pays tribute to Toronto's four-legged friends.

An Orthodox church built by the Royal Family for the Russian community exiled to the French Riviera.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

George Lucas donated this park to honor the birthplace of his two biggest movie franchises.

When Azorean green tea meets volcanic hot springs water, a luminous brew is born.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Crossing this suspension bridge feels like walking through the sky, a fitting tribute to the head of the Apollo program.

The steel cable lets adventurers zoom between two mountain towns at speeds of up to 75 miles per hour.

This building’s ghostly exterior reflects its former lives as a prison, school, and funeral home.

The lighthouse central to the 1980s horror classic "The Fog" is, in fact, located in one of the foggiest areas of the Pacific Coast.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

The sumptuous ceiling was one of the last things Charles I saw before his execution.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

This palatial spiral staircase was so unusual the name "snail" was given to the noble family who built it.

This museum inside a museum tells the story of London's timepieces.

The world's largest frame offers spectacular views of the city's past and present.