Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

Dozens of elaborate works of automotive art have been preserved at this Arizona museum.

The caskets in this graveyard have not been opened—they have always been open.

This old Soviet gas station is in perfect condition, one of the best-preserved mosaics in the country.

The lesser-known eastern counterpart to Kyoto’s famous fox shrine.

This tiny museum honors the rural country doctor experience.

Two James Beard Award-winning chefs are putting their own spin on Filipino favorites in a food market stall.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

Order the extra snappy, steamed hot dogs at this fourth-generation-run New England diner.

Named for the Yoruba word for Lagos, this craft brewery draws on European beer-making and West African palm wine-fermenting techniques.

The largest Spanish artifact built in the Philippines and one of the oldest underground reservoirs in the world.

A stream flows near the radioactive spa, where people place handmade miniatures of water mills and other strange devices.

In a shopping arcade, a modernized temple deeply tied to feudal Japan’s prominent warlords.

Reminiscent of a termite mound, this imposing structure is likely an ancient funerary monument.

First Nations’ foodways are front and center at this food truck-turned-brick-and-mortar.

This Peruvian-Chinese institution has perfected the art of rotisserie chicken—alongside plantains and lo mein.

"Bangkok's Green Lung," a large park on an island, feels worlds away from traffic-choked Sukhumvit Road.

This reconstructed castle was once the base of the “Devil King” who almost united the feudal warring states.

The site of a dress rehearsal for D-Day that ended in disaster.

A slope with a mysterious name recalls a discontinued pre-war energy drink.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

The history of Reykjavik told through a historical village and live actors.

A rare 16-bedroom Qing Dynasty house re-erected on the campus of the Peabody Essex Museum. 

A storied London perfume shop that supplies scents for royalty has been operating out of this storefront for nearly 300 years.

The oldest tourist graffiti in the world helped archaeologists identify the Pyramid of Djoser.