Places Sternenfeuer Wants to Go

Beloved children's TV characters freckle the German city's streets.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

Browse through roughly 130,000 titles in the world's largest independent video rental store.

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

Colorful turkeys gobble and greet delighted visitors.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

A unique art exhibit home to letters addressed to those unable to receive them.

A letterbox installed specifically for the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

A ceramic postbox where visitors can post original poems and creative messages.

In the premises of Pune Head Post Office stands a curious letterbox topped with the design of a crown.

Inside Cork's Kent station stands its country's longest-serving postbox.

The first post office in Toronto still operates today, complete with quill pens and ink for writing letters.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s airmail navigation network.

A surviving concrete arrow from an early-20th-century airmail-navigation network overlooks a reservoir.

A well-preserved example from a 1920s network of airmail navigation arrows sits near Interstate 15 in southern Nevada.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Far out of its comfort zone, this sequoia was planted as a symbol of the connection between Visalia and its neighboring national park.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Four hundred granite steps were built into this massive rock by the National Park Service.

A 19th-century cabin built into a hollowed-out Sequoia tree.

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).