Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

A replica that won't float away.

Magical-looking cottages that inspired one of the most famous animated films ever.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

Once a bustling cotton factory, this early 20th-century building is now home to a thriving artspace.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

A less famous, short-lived meeting spot of the Inklings.

French sculptor Paul Moreau-Vauthier transformed the site of a 19th-century massacre into a haunting memorial.

Archeologists can't decide if these two hand-holding skeletons were brothers or lovers.

Built from one couple’s vast personal collection, this free museum showcases a century’s worth of state-sponsored agitprop.

Beneath unsuspecting visitors feet, a capsule containing pieces of America’s civil rights history.

Pleistocene megafauna fossils are the subject of Nevada's newest state park at the northern edge of the Las Vegas metropolitan area.

This feat of German engineering is one of the only elevators in the world following a curved path.

This train station meeting spot is an actual, millennia-old tree from the island of Yakushima.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

This 19th-century benevolent society and jazz hall was rescued from abandonment to again host live music.

Established in 1950, this humble burger joint is the oldest surviving one in Japan.

Lombard Street may be more famous, but this is the real “crookedest street in the world.”

The smallest bar in Amsterdam has stayed in the family since 1798.

Ireland’s northernmost pub.

A historic seafront building established as a refuge for sailors to promote moral living and literacy.