Places athompson411 Wants to Go

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.