Places Andrea IX Wants to Go

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

Hunting trophies decorate Oregon's most unique bar-restaurant.

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

One woman's decades-long obsession with the "La Fée Verte."

Seller of surplus nuclear research materials.

The exact whereabouts of this surreal cabinet of curiosities are rarely the same place twice.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

A Belle Epoque bordello turned into a themed love hotel.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

Invisible bridge parts the waters, invoking biblical images and preserving the ominous feel of an ancient moat.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

Oldest Museum of the Netherlands is a true cabinet of curiosities.

A collection of anatomical samples from one of the first anthropologists to suggest that humans reached North America by crossing the Bering Strait.

Hungarian mummies in beautiful painted coffins.

This beautiful "lagoon" is actually a toxic soup filled with cars, carcasses, and trash. When warnings couldn't stop people from going for a dip, the town dyed it black.

A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.

A book bound in the skin of an infamous criminal, along with countless other specimens.

This solitary monastery may hold the remains of Vlad the Impaler (but probably not).

Artfully arranged bones of 5,800 Austrians.

An enormous, 30-story-deep hole in the middle of Guatemala City.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

This domed temple was built in a hidden cave mouth as a refuge for sinners seeking absolution.