Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

At a museum of everyday objects, it is the act of collecting that is really on display.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

The mortal remains of a Russian prince, priest and paranormal investigator who came to America in 1792.

A monumental underground karstic wonderland is also the water source for over a million citizens of Beirut.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

This small-town park in southern Illinois has a 1,000,000-gallon swimming pool and a 100,000-barrel oil well.

A cozy cafe tells the remarkable story of how one man started with a little red paperclip and wound up with an entire house.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

Scattered around Atlanta are little doors with big charm.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This off-beat, quirky communism-themed bar isn't afraid to poke fun at its history.

This prison on the Maltese island of Gozo is almost 500 years old, and they have the graffiti to prove it.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.