Places wintermuteway Wants to Go

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

This art center is way beyond your average pumpkin-carving operation.

Huge herds of Asian elephants can be seen walking, bathing, and just chilling at this Sri Lankan park.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

A collection of old neon signs from all over Poland line a secluded courtyard.

The abandoned bathhouse is all that remains of the hot springs considered Florida's original tourist attraction.

The largest guitar store in the world has been visited by some of music's all-time greats passing through upstate New York.

A fairytale art house in the middle of Wisconsin.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

The elaborate crypt where Peruvian heroes of the War of the Pacific were laid to rest.

These beautiful objects represent beautiful ideas.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

Impressive artifacts from Juneau's gold mining days fill this mining site-turned-museum.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

This curious building hides eclectic details like medieval gargoyles alongside naked angels and Art Nouveau mosaics.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

A factory director designed what was the world's longest suspension footbridge in 1923 so his employees could get to work safely.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

The great American road trip, but smaller.

The mile-long pier stretches from a ruined fortress out into the Baltic.