Places bartholomej Wants to Go

Plagued with warts? Leave a frog at this small shrine in the city of Tosa, and you may be cured.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

Come for the fish sundae, stay for the collection of Studio Ghibli cat buses.

Nestled amid the trees lies an abandoned funicular railway that dates back to the 1920s.

A statue erected on an infamous cliff where young boys would hold dangerous "pee offs" to prove their mettle.

Sharks, stingrays, and turtles swim in the pools at this former elementary school.

Kokera sushi may be the rarest sushi you have never heard of. 

Nope, not the one in France. The only officially-recognized reproduction of Monet’s garden in Giverny is located in a remote corner of Japan.

A beer pipeline runs beneath Bruges.

Once the longest bridge in Ireland, this rusting span sits abandoned and overrun by nature.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

The Grand Lodge of Ireland is one of the oldest in the world, full of fantastical, elaborately themed rooms.

A moody and picturesque riverside ruin overgrown with vegetation.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

A little-visited waterfall in an otherworldly landscape.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

The monument marks where Simón Bolívar and his Spanish adversary Pablo Morillo met to have a drink together.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

These Bronze Age rock carvings are among the oldest in the region.

This micronation's flag honors its favorite drink, Kaffegöken, or "cuckoo-coffee."

Rocks carved with biblical passages in the 1800s.

A memorial to a Swedish hockey player's "encounter" with aliens.