Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A museum complex showing 17th-century life in Swellendam.

The largest known adobe office building, emulating in style and layout the forms of traditional adobe architecture common to the region.

Hidden 2600-year-old Urartian tomb is located in close proximity to a busy shopping mall.

A volcanically-heated waterfall in the St. Lucian rainforest.

Austin’s beloved dive bar and karaoke headquarters where relaxed drinks and high-energy singalongs have defined nights on South Congress for decades

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

A cave that was home to humans 160 thousand years ago.

Honor lost loved ones at this serene wind phone hidden in an environmental preserve.

A unique 3-D sculpture based on Rene Magritte’s “The Red Model.”

India’s largest inland salt lake, whose blinding white salt flats create one of the most surreal landscapes in the Thar Desert.

Europe’s only spaceport is in South America.

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

This place claims to be North America’s first vegan convenience store.

A devilish mask still mocks a king’s rumored love nest across the street.

Part of the wall is preserved in the aptly named Parque de Berlín in Madrid.

An important message and optimistic splash of color in a troubled neighborhood.

A suburban monument preserves the faces of twenty murdered Jewish boys and girls.

Over 70,000 prisoners were “transported” to a brutal life of forced labor in this French penal colony.

A fantastic resource for information on both Route 66 and the local area.

Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.

From an earlier era, a small community was established and was prosperous but drifted away, leaving only the bank vault behind.

A ruined hilltop watch base in the Aravalli ridge above Jaipur, where broken fort walls and a forgotten lookout overlook Man Sagar Lake, reachable only by scrambling through cactus-covered desert trails.

This roadside establishment in between Houston and the Louisiana border has the largest alligator in captivity

Two unremarkable-looking rocks on a cobblestone street are actually ancient wanderers; one a 150-million-year-old limestone, the other a 1.8-billion-year-old granite.