Places amyelizabethrushworth Wants to Go

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

A once great mansion stands in stately ruin.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

This crumbling, graffiti-covered mansion sits tantalizingly within reach of the proletariat who frequent a public park.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

This Parisian café sticks almost exclusively to an ethos of reuse.

135 bronze medallions mark a French meridian line which once rivaled the hotshot Greenwich timeline.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

Stroll through retro Paris while shopping for old postcards and discarded doll heads.

Beggars were miraculously "cured" of their fake ailments when they returned home to this 17th century Paris slum each night.

A lone cannonball remains lodged in the walls of the Hotel de Sens as a sober reminder of a revolution.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

An architectural marvel that spans the Arda River, and has stories of a haunted past.

This massive concrete sculpture is said to be the heaviest communist monument on Earth.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

The Stonehenge of Wales is one of the grandest neolithic dolmens still in existence.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

Despite having a dome made of papier-mâché this tiny observatory has survived for over a century.