Places adamjudith2 Wants to Go

This convenience store-turned-brewpub serves up inventive Indian cuisine and a wide selection of beers.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The first Venetian glass exhibit in Japan and one of the largest in the world.

A serene mountaintop temple complex featuring one big, bronze Buddha.

A culturally significant rural temple in the beautiful mountains of Itoshima.

A mysterious set of tunnels carved in the hills of rural northern Kyushu.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.

The largest volcanic caldera in Japan holds an entire city in its maw.

One of the best-preserved medieval streets in Europe.

More than a century old, this trading post resides in the Navajo Nation.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

North America's first Indigenous-owned winery is located within Canada's only desert-like ecosystem.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

These ruins by the Dead Sea is where John the Baptist met his untimely end.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.

A faux desert landscape in the middle of the jungle that sprouts oases during the rainy season.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

One of the best places to dig—some say on the planet—for six different types of chalcedony.

Rare karst landscape eroded from a flat seabed.

A 16th-century Andalusian palace.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).