Places maverickscenic Wants to Go

These otherworldly caverns form Earth's oldest known cave system.

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

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

This seaside Scottish holiday rental lets you live out your bookselling dreams.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

An atmospheric, medieval-themed book store hides in a 13th-century underground space.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

The oldest bookstore in Iceland.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

Lines from a walking song are etched into a rock in Natural Bridge State Park.

You may recognize this beautiful grove within Kaitoke Regional Park as location of the house of Elrond.

This site contains overlapping ancient graveyards that existed about 1,000 years apart.

The location of this historic castle was inspired by a donkey.

This castle was established by the 4th Duke of Montrose and is connected to the Buchanan Clan.