Places stluxbacher Wants to Go

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

A particularly creepy abandoned hospital that sparks interest for lovers of the supernatural.

A habitable museum, or a time machine into Romania’s Communist era?

A cluttered and astounding collection of antiquities and curiosities.

This nearly 200-year-old restaurant's history includes an exiled French prince, JFK, and a very hungry Daniel Webster.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

This iconic building , which is very evocative of the county of Cheshire, is a genuine gem of Tudor, black and white, timber-framed architecture .

An East German time capsule caters to nostalgic Germans and curious tourists.

Architectureal fantasy quarter of Rome.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

The alley connecting two of country music’s most historic venues has a rich history of its own.

Henri Matisse's final masterpiece.

Feast on coconut crab curry at one of Thailand’s only outposts of Baba cuisine.

Very likely the only museum in the world that celebrates the glory of the humble banjo.

Welcome to the world's only museum dedicated to the Ukranian Easter egg.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

Tucked away in a corner of a Maine general store there was a museum devoted to an equally beloved and reviled local soft drink.

A museum dedicated to a Cold War era sausage.