Places carlosmleon Wants to Go

This one has sailed five times as far as Sir Francis Drake's famous ship.

A popular tourist cave with a dark past.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

The house's confection-like decorations are the result of one man's painstaking work over decades.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Visit the ancient, mysterious Roman catacombs ... in the Netherlands.

This replica of the Greek structure is in the heart of Nashville.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

Come for the gun-toting hillbilly madman, stay for the ice-cream loving basketball bears.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

The site of the first battle of World War II.

At this exhibit on the world of poison, venomous animals steal the show.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

A Memphis park where you can walk the whole Mississippi River in one go.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Treehouse motel and treehouse-building school.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.