Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

This carved stone slab marked the grave of a local dragon slayer, who makes a killer pie.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

Come for the heirloom-corn whiskey, stay for the wood hats.

Austria’s oldest brewery makes beer with flaming-hot granite.

A commemoration of the first Dutchman to reach Japan, whose name still echoes in the heart of Tokyo.

The only surviving building of historic West Boylston, which was flooded to create the Wachusett Reservoir.

This lovely Scottish nature walk leads to the source of a local legend.

A large boulder was declared a local landmark by a popular vlogger.

Crusader ruin with views over South Lebanon.

The final resting place of the first documented Chinese person in the United States lies in a Boston cemetery.

An entire home filled with over 3,000 pieces of Santa memorabilia in glass cases, walls, on Christmas trees, and even in the bathroom.

An abandoned fish-shaped drive-in gets a second life as a restaurant.

Disused for decades, this freight railway bridge is finally being renovated into a scenic promenade.

Every winter, this former planetarium is transformed into a massive, brightly-lit Christmas ornament.

The steepest tramway in North America provides stunning views of the out-of-the-way Wallowa Mountains in northeastern Oregon.

This stunning iron gate designed by Modernist architect Antoni Gaudí is filled with mythic symbolism.

A vaudeville performer mounted this hollowed-out redwood log onto the chassis of a truck, and toured the country spreading a message of conservation.

This settlement on the original Transcontinental Railroad began by harvesting timber, but transitioned to a forgotten 19th-century industry: harvesting ice.

This underpass became an unlikely piece of cinematic history after its appearance in 'A Clockwork Orange.'

This reconstructed Norman castle is the world's most accurate, from location to livestock.

This propitious plastic porcine has been petitioning park visitors to pick up after themselves for more than 50 years.

Little remains of the once flourishing Asbestos' asbestos mine.

This rock was donated to the museum by an inspired young visitor.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.