Places stickysugar Wants to Go

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

George Martin's Caribbean recording studio now rots within the shadow of an active volcano.

A small museum full of giant effigies of Bali's demons and monsters.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Thousand-year-old Viking runes adorn an ancient Greek lion at the entrance to the Venetian Arsenal.

Hanging within this medieval church are the bones of a beast allegedly slain by a fourth-century saint.

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

As can be expected from a centuries-old church built in a canal city, the undercroft of this house of worship is beautifully flooded.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

This massive mural by famed pop-artist Keith Haring was hidden for almost 30 years until its 2018 rediscovery.

An overgrown and largely forgotten cemetery lies hidden within the outskirts of Amsterdam.

A rare tour of an aristocrat's private home reveals valuable 17th-century paintings from artists like Rembrandt.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

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

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This medieval castle was home to a known tyrant and features several hidden passages.

Inside this museum, visitors venture through ghost stories entrenched in Icelandic folklore.