Places umweber5 Wants to Go

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

The centuries-old trees are draped with Spanish moss to make them look like wizened elders.

This retro diner claims to be the birthplace of poutine.

A 605-page Quran penned in the blood of a dictator is locked away in a mosque.

In the fictional world of Kcymaerxthaere, celestial wonders marked a portal to a powerful route of travel at this site in Madrid, Spain.

A tea party concludes each visit to this Russian spice cookie sanctum.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

A plaque marks the former home of Käthe Paulus, an aerial acrobat who invented the modern folding parachute.

The world's first clock to use set theory as a measure of time required the invention of a new light bulb just to maintain its obtuse measurements.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The 1936 Summer Olympics site is a crumbling remnant of sportsmanship and a history its host country would like to forget.

It celebrates a very stinky task and salutes London's fatberg-vanquishing team.

For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

A historic pub with traditional Irish cuisine, fine drinks, and a paranormal past.

The abandoned military base looks like a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

One of the largest barracks of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy's military is now an abandoned ruin.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

This Hungarian stilt village is built in a lake that never freezes over due to the power plant that that uses it as a cooling pond.

Feed it cash, get your very own gold bar.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

This letter written by Queen Elizabeth II in 1986 won't be opened until 2085.