Places wlongson23 Wants to Go

A grave commemorates piano tuner F. W. Schlieffen, who drowned in floodwaters in 1906.

This historic psychiatric hospital is haunted by its chilling past.

A cozy, cave-like home hidden in the French countryside.

This train station meeting spot is an actual, millennia-old tree from the island of Yakushima.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

An extraordinary collection of aircraft and spacecraft on display at the original site of the Boeing Company.

Retirement home for giant obsolete machines.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

This natural history museum houses one of the world's largest rat kings, a terrifying jumble of tangled rodents.

This unique Renaissance castle was turned into a home for Nazi occultism.

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

Between Neo-Pagans and Neo-Nazis, these strange rock formations have a curious cult following and a very strange history.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

A century-long search for a church that was never there.

"The most colorful grottoes of the world.

The medieval institution is home to the precious treasure stolen in World War II in one of the greatest art thefts of the 20th century.

A sprawling Baroque park with 300-year-old hydro-pneumatic waterworks.

On the highest peak in the Harz Mountains, science and the occult faced off in a failed attempt to turn a goat into a boy.

What was once thought to be a wellspring of unicorn bones is actually just a prehistoric burial site.

A desert community’s history is captured by this collection of artifacts and memorabilia.

The site of abandoned cable car system provides expansive views of Tutuila and nearby capital Pago Pago.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

Visit a speakeasy-like indie cinema specializing in 16mm and 35mm films.

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.