Places cptnxanarchy Wants to Go

These 7,000-year-old cave paintings depict life in Neolithic Spain.

This Alaskan town appoints the general store's resident feline as honorary mayor.

This millennium-old site reflects a time when sugar was a treasured commodity.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

The largest hydroelectric project in Laos created this eerie landscape.

An underground city beneath Krakow's postwar socialist utopia.

After immigrating to Paris in the 1970s, two brothers from Laos built a grocery store empire.

The property contains 37 preserved animal effigy mounds constructed by Native Americans between 800-1100.

This Algerian sweet shop serves confections in an eye-popping array of hues.

Peruse produce from Senegal, Cameroon, and other West African nations at this sprawling market.

A sacred collection of indigenous rock art.

A major pre-Columbian archaeological site in central El Salvador.

Over a millennium ago, this site on the shores of Lake Titicaca was home to a city of more than 10,000 people.

Fully loaded, Tunisian-style sandwiches are on the menu at this unassuming hole-in-the-wall.

The kitsch mansion of the former Romanian president Nicolae Ceaușescu features a golden bathroom.

A bustling bazaar with an elaborate facade in Central Asia’s underrated capital.

A well-preserved set of ruins not far from Lovelock.

This 19th century Sioux City candy company is the home of the Twin Bing, a historic, chocolate-covered treat.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

The longest timber-piled jetty in the world has an underwater observatory.

In the heart of Tirana, this underground nuclear bunker has been transformed into a museum.

Enormous crabs, bioluminescent jellies, and other amazing creatures from the ocean’s depths—some of which are in an aquarium for the first time ever.

This rural island is home to the ghost town of what used to be the world’s biggest salt mine.

This garage is frozen in the late 1990s, full of rare and untouched cars and motorcycles.