Places juliadsilva Wants to Go

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

This rocky spread has been squeezed up directly from the bowels of the earth.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

5,000 skulls in memorial to those killed by the Khmer Rouge.

A former Canadian Pacific Railway station turned liquor store, the first and only station in Canada visited by British royalty.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.

This Haudenosaunee restaurant is a delicious tribute to indigenous cuisine.

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

This coffee shop lies hidden beneath a historic church.

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

One of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World holds the world's tallest metal staircase.

In the back of a bustling factory lurks a quiet museum honoring the history of Canadian sugar manufacturing.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

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

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The metal truss bridge served as the sole entry point to an "isolation island" for smallpox outbreaks throughout the 1870s and early 1940s.

Pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers.