Places Abi Inman Wants to Go

One of the world's largest ice festivals dazzles visitors for over a month with radiant sculptures and carvings.

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

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

Luxurious devotion and 500,000 images of Buddha in Myanmar.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

A museum and doll store featuring a surreal and super sanitized version of where babies come from.

The abandoned site of the Beatles spiritual awakening and subsequent revolt.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

This classic restaurant features a gorgeous mirror-clad room.

Mediums from a psychic utopian community lead a trippy VR journey on a parked desert bus.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

Take a monster truck tour around an ostrich farm in the middle of the desert.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A Moroccan getaway in the mountain range that plays the Himalayas' stunt double.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

This historic recreationist school churns out warriors that may very well have had a fighting chance in Rome's pits of the day.

The mystic whose incorrupt corpse still attracts the faithful.

An abandoned Roman salami factory has found new life as an art space home to 200 squatters.

The final resting place of the poets Shelley and Keats.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.