I’m not sure what is more interesting: the fact that each of these places I am sharing with you exists, or that it was someone’s “vision” since childhood to, for example, open a hotel that has jail cells for rooms.

It’s like when Ralphie says he wants an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle and his teacher says “You’ll shoot your eye out!,” except little Johnny wanted to open a jail hotel, and the teacher instead patted him on the head and said “You’ll make a fine accountant.”

Jailhotel Löwengraben

I once saw an ad in the classifieds for a man looking for a female lover who possibly had a dungeon and some diapers. I’ll admit, I was shocked and a bit shaken up. Now I realize that he, like the country of Switzerland, is just way more advanced than us.

727 Fuselage Home

Instead of fighting off Others, competing with time travel and watching every other person they know die, maybe the cast of Lost should have stopped complaining all the time and just gotten together and built this.

Smash Shack

I wonder if Sarah has regulars at her Smash Shack. Like some girl with Hello Kitty shoelaces who smashes two wine glasses every Wednesday, or some Chris Cornell look-alike who digs throwing art deco style vases while smoking Parliaments.

Crossword Puzzle Cruise

Nothing screams “Happy Anniversary” more than a Crossword Puzzle Cruise with 1,000 people just like you. Or for those single people out there, maybe you’ll come back with a great story. “We first met when he was on the upper deck doing the whole puzzle…in pen…”