Places Ell Hughes Wants to Go

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

The island where one woman reigned as a "queen" over 30-odd Japanese soldiers who refused to believe that WWII had ended.

A statue honors the local legend that the devil helped build St. Mary's church after being tricked into thinking it was going to be a wine bar.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

A surreal statue honoring Prague's favorite literary son.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

This encrypted monolith protected a secret of Norse mythology by hiding in a church wall for over a millennium.

From Coke II to Google Glass, this exhibit features some of the most spectacular commercial flops.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

The resting place of 18th century German mummies.

The architect of this fanciful complex called it an "oasis for humanity and nature in a sea of rational houses."

The real place where the One Ring to rule them all was forged.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

Berlin's beloved bear is immortalized at the Museum für Naturkunde.

Be(w)ar(e) the moat around this historic Czech castle.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.