Places candmthurman Wants to Go

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

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

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

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

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

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

The intricate stonework of Machu Picchu serves as a testament to Incan engineers.