Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

A steampunk-styled three-floor factory churning out art, activism, and electronic beats.

The Southern California pop sounds of surf and sand were born right here.

Once a black market electronics marketplace, now an otaku shopper's paradise.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A statue marks the exact spot where The Boy Who Never Grows Up made his first literary appearance.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

A plaque commemorates the spot in the Oregon woods where the first-ever Geocache was hidden.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

Japan's largest collection of Western-style mansions in the port city of Kobe includes a recreation of Sherlock Holmes' 221B Baker Street quarters.

An unfinished complex built for children from around the world sits abandoned on the Black Sea coastline.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

A Catholicism-themed restaurant where sacrilege is on the menu.

From under the bed of one of the co-founders, this server helped launch the notorious file-sharing website.

A line of blue paint marks the route of the inaugural parade.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

This 22-floor tower's Skydeck offers panoramic views of Amsterdam.

In Twickenham sits a small whitewashed castle that inspired Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein.'

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

A retrofuturistic art installation in the Pittsburgh Airport.