Places akornblatt Wants to Go

The site of the first couple's first kiss is commemorated by the most adorable presidential monument ever.

Nonprofit art center that promotes outsider, intuitive, and self-taught art.

A hollow cement depiction of time's inexorable effect on the human body.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

The highest peak in mainland Spain is said to be the final resting place of a Muslim king.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

This whimsical winery by Antoni Gaudí looks ripped from the pages of a fairytale.

18th century anatomical amphitheater of the Royal College of Surgery of Barcelona.

This former Baroque palace on the historic Calle Montcada is a rare architectural gem and was once the meeting place of an aristocratic scholarly society.

A stately palace has been converted into the world's largest cannabis museum.

Gaze upon chocolate sculptures depicting everything from chariot races to Gaudí's famous church at this shrine to sweets.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Virgil's many-mouthed gateway to the underworld.

Hellam Township is reputed to feature seven remote gates, which when passed through in the right order, open an entrance to hell.

Steaming blood-red hot spring from hell.

The world's toughest modern Christian pilgrimage leads directly to the gates of Hell.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Sparkling, calcite-covered skeletons of children who may have been sacrificed to appease an angry god.

A mysterious chasm in the heart of the ancient Roman Forum, the Lacus Curtius was once believed to be a gateway to hell.

The ancient settlement attracts tourists from all over looking to learn about the Chinese vision of the afterlife.

A stratovolcano located in the south of Iceland, with a long history of charted activity and a rich mythology attached.

A cave network located at the southernmost tip of mainland Greece was once believed to be an entrance to Hades.

Orcas on display and in the water.