Places Coolplacebrr Wants to Go

A local dialect born in the late 19th century is only spoken in this isolated California valley.

The beautiful 1920 Pantages Theatre remains hidden just underneath the LA Downtown Jewelry Exchange.

The world's greatest slide descends 18 stories from this looping mountaintop viewing platform.

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

A sinuous path among steep cliffs creates a stunning sight in southwestern Serbia.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

The western-most fortress on the Great Wall of China has gone from a strategic stronghold to a kitschy tourist carnival.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

This water tower slanted at an uncomfortable angle off the old Route 66 was an ingenious marketing ploy.

Once the largest unsupported dome in the world, beating out the Pantheon and St Peters in Rome.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

A place as enchanting as the journey to reach it is harrowing.

At the very tippity-top of Europe is a cliff from which you can view the midnight sun.

One of Canada's most incredible rare book collections holds hundreds of thousands of gorgeous tomes that the general public can touch.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

A replica that won't float away.

A hidden garden of stones engraved with scriptures, a Joseph Smith Sphinx, all carved by one man.

Visitors to this library are in for a real-world education in modernist architecture.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

The long underground cave's curiously shaped stalagmites have inspired many legends.

A lovers' beach, tucked below the surface of the island, provides a safe haven for romance.