Places wilsonn Wants to Go

A collection of cafes and shops all crafted from recycled storage containers.

Dozens of large-scale, creative, evocative curios from prominent artists dot the calm outdoor space around this major museum.

A nearly 100-year-old dining car in upstate New York embodies the golden age of roadside dining.

It's bad manners to eat and drink on the subways of Tokyo, unless the train is this bar. 

A 16th-century horror show built in a lovely Italian garden.

This historical theme park celebrates all things noodle.

This incredible Chinese theme park may be the largest bootleg in history.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

An abandoned set from the 1980 film "Popeye," claimed and repurposed as a theme park by creative locals.

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

It specializes in outsider art and artifacts of secret societies.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

An abandoned vacation home spent a decade taking on legends. It's now taking on water.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

An abandoned outdoor movie theater in the Sinai desert.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Hidden beneath a beautiful overlook you’ll find the history of the city depicted in comic strip format next to a pay toilet.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Little-known artist couple chose a former silk factory as the location for a museum dedicated to their work and other avant-garde art.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.