Places stefanmarquart Wants to Go

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Each of these gorgeous, intricately decorated rooms is painstakingly crafted to the scale of 1 inch: 1 foot.

The underground hideout of a Japanese soldier for whom World War II ended in 1972.

The mysterious, untimely death of a Canned Heat band member still haunts this unfinished home.

The body of an unidentified woman, visible through a glass coffin, was discovered by accident.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

An abandoned 1920s school with a mysterious history.

A 10-foot-tall concrete Alley Oop statue left over from World War II now stands on the side of the road.

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

An abandoned hotel in the highlands of Bali is shrouded in stories of ghosts, curses, and corruption.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

"May the force be with you always."

The pieces in this sculpture garden are made from demolished buildings that were once landmarks of Motor City.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

The world's largest collection of the world's largest objects is in one small Illinois town.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

This whimsical castle of grottoes was the labor of love of a French postman, and one of the greatest achievements of outsider architecture.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

This church, better known for its weeping portrait of the Virgin Mary, also houses the world's oldest existing piece of taxidermy.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

This naval gun is fired every day at noon, an odd timekeeping tradition the origin of which is local legend.

The only international border marker within the United States.

This seaside production studio was built to film 'Titanic' and has been the wet set of choice for other Hollywood productions since.