Places Duncan Chappell Wants to Go

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

Visit the home of Sweden's beloved fictional character, Pippi Longstocking.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

A spiritual sanctuary in a natural cave.

Eritrea's futuristic gas station is a nod to Italy's fascist history.

Scotland's only funicular railway is also the United Kingdom's highest.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

Home to a vast and influential collection of Shakespeareana.

Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.

A mysterious local has been dressing the child's grave for decades.

This old wooden funicular railway leads to a cemetery in the forest.

An ancient passage filled with stalls selling used books, once frequented by Vincent Van Gogh.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.

A monument to the thrice mayor of London who according to lore made his fortune by selling his rat-chasing cat.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

An early work of the architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, these swimming pools blend into the beach.

This hidden green space is the city's second largest conservatory.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A tiny island is connected to the mainland by a private railway that residents travel in their own personal wagons.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

At high tide this strange footbridge appears to have no purpose whatsoever.