Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

This modernist bridge highlights the bear as a symbol of Madrid.

Once a safe haven for locals engaged in blood feuds, this 400-year-old fortified tower is now a museum showing what life was like for those lying in wait within its walls.

An Art Nouveau building covered in animal gargoyles and grotesques.

The world's longest continuously running show has played at this small West End theater since 1974.

An old spiral fire escape dangles above a public courtyard in Midtown Oklahoma City.

The heroic sled dog of the 1925 serum run is preserved in taxidermy.

An American mascot that became a lucky god in Japan, enshrined in a city far from the main center of his worship.

These fascinating 19th-century tombs in the center of Pune belong to Europeans who lived in the city in that era.

An Antoni Gaudí masterpiece in Astorga.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

Every summer, this shrine sets up a tiny drinking fountain reserved for thirsty apians.

The real-life site of Ichabod Crane's infamous gourd attack.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

The largest Buddha statue in the Western Hemisphere is just 50 miles north of NYC.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A luxury hotel constructed out of a former jail.

This private island is still in the family after a 400-year history including a witch hunt, a pirate, and multiple wars.

Dug as a secret royal escape route, the tunnel became a wartime bomb shelter and dumping ground for vintage cars.

A home covered with elaborate mosaic and other pieces of art.

An underwater city for the dead.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

A small Japanese village claims to be the final resting place of the son of God (and God's other son's ear).