Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

Under the shadow of its towering parent tree, a rare specimen of sequoia produces ghostly white leaves.

This statue of the "shiny uncle of Beppu" was erected in 2007.

The exhibition explores the Icelandic city's Viking Age history.

For more than 15 years, this downtown dive bar has hosted fiery outdoor “iron pours.”

The city's oldest Chinese restaurant offers local history and seriously good food.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

A bookstore with an entire room dedicated to damaged and forlorn comic books.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

For the last eight decades, this curious shop has been ridding Atlanta of bad juju.

This pair of centuries-old magnolia trees was once struck by a Babe Ruth home run.

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

Rare and classic books by Black authors are the focus at this independent bookstore in a historic Atlanta neighborhood.

Georgia’s last drive-in movie theater is a relic of a bygone era.

It’s all about the Benjamins at this Atlanta museum with interactive exhibits.

On land once deemed “valueless,” a multipurpose community garden proves the potential of urban farming.

This ancient fort has been a great insight into the Roman presence in the region.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.

Once used to calculate the various levels around the country.

Colorful sand dunes create a unique attraction in this part of Utah's red-rock country.

An artifact taken from one of America's shortest wars.

Over time, this castle grew to encompass the entire island.

This stone figurine was made more than 6,000 years ago and depicts a female deity of the Neolithic Vinča culture.