Places stavm Wants to Go

Crumbling remnant of Rio's colonial past tucked behind Corcovado mountain in the neighborhood of Cosme Velho.

Many cities have held the title, but Brazil snatched the crown from Chile in 2011.

The eccentric home of Estevão Silva da Conceição, known as the "Brazilian Gaudí."

A three-shelf library serves as a memorial in the Jewish cemetery of Krems.

This cubist Vienna church building looks like some sort of alien stonehenge.

Op-art architecture designed for happiness.

The resting place for anonymous victims of the Danube's dark waters.

The topiary maze at the Habsburg hunting lodge.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

This former insane asylum now holds a pathological anatomy museum.

Macabre museum devoted to historical Viennese murders.

Swarovski's museum/theme park is a fake diamond fantasia overlooked by a giant.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A tropical paradise just a short trip from the opera house is filled with beautiful winged creatures.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

A small museum filled with over 1,000 clocks, and one particular clock calibrated to run until the year 9999.

New York's oldest magic store.

The front yard of an Upper East Side town house hides the last fragment of one of New York's most famous theatres.

The walls are decorated with whimsical murals painted by the creator of the Madeline franchise.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

Though its celestial ceiling is impressive, the true star is the vast collection of French books.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.