Places amosner Wants to Go

These banned cigarette vending machines now sell little pieces of pocket-sized art.

These abandoned ruins in the middle of Jaffna have withstood centuries of tumultuous power struggles.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

A three-story tower of books about Abraham Lincoln is one of the more unusual monuments to the president.

A memorial to Wellington's well-loved, well-traveled wharf dog.

A cozy bookstore and coffee shop in the heart of Cartagena's Old City.

The abandoned summer estate of the former Greek Royal Family.

Perched atop the highest hill in Cartagena, this 17th-century convent offers spectacular views of the city.

This quirky outpost and gallery inside a former church is an unexpected trove of handcrafted art.

This iconic tattoo shop has its own onsite museum with artifacts from the early history of modern body art.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

This magical space partly designed by Antoni Gaudi is one of the best examples of romantic gardening in the Mediterranean.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Southeast Asia is a monument to a disappearing community.

A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.

Hundreds of numbered stakes hidden in the woods mark the graves of the lost souls of a nearby asylum.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

At this hidden studio, the dying art of taxidermy is alive and well.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.