Places Stephen Gale Wants to Go

A fossil of a 30 million-year-old fish is unexpectedly hidden thousands of feet above sea level.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

A favorite haunt of Delhi's politicos and intellectuals, this old-school coffee shop was shut down under Indira Gandhi's Emergency.

The spectacular geological formations make it one of the most impressive caves in Europe.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

A sinkhole and now a swimming hole, too, full of dazzling turquoise water.

The tallest residential building in Africa is an unsettling Brutalist monolith.

Located off a bustling strip, a silent teahouse employs workers with hearing- or speech-related disabilities.

This artificial cave looks like something out of a fairytale.

Artistic streetlamps depicting Lord Ganesh’s favourite food and divine mount around an iconic temple of the deity in the heart of Pune.

Decor at “Nevada’s Oldest Thirst Parlor” includes Raquel Welch's brassiere hanging from a stuffed moose head.

Flaunt your karaoke chops at this pitch-perfect dive bar.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

A road runs through the middle of this small Austrian chapel.

In this small cemetery lies the grave of one of England's greatest football strikers, who died too soon.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This astronomical clock is the second oldest in England.

One of New Jersey's oldest surviving buildings still bears the mark of our former British overlords.

A surprising museum of 20th-century technology.

A historic covered bridge is but one example of an oddly prevalent American urban legend.

This strange, big-tailed beast became a Pennsylvania town's unofficial mascot.

Inside this 150-year-old barn turned antique shop is a vast array of items for curios hunters.

The home and studio of a visionary woodworker now stands as a museum and example of his artistic genius.