Places buckblaze Wants to Go

Winding paths and ramshackle mausoleums in the oldest "park cemetery" in London.

Banksy gives themself artistic license with this piece of London street art.

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

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

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

Divinely-inspired village houses 6,000 dolls, plus strange and lovely outsider art.

The 15-foot-wide, 2-ton pan fries hundreds of chickens once a year.

A wonderful display of arts and crafts handmade by local artisans in the Southern Appalachians.

A wedding chapel, vintage clothing shop, and bar all under one roof.

These strange large stones served as a campsite and lookout post for generations of Native Americans.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Art museum based around the collections accumulated over 58 years by one eccentric thrift store owner.

A retired tobacco farmer's pet project turned into a sturdy miniature city.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

North Carolina's finest examples of Native American pictographs have survived for 5,000 years.