Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A subterranean necropolis blending Egyptian, Hellenic, and Roman traditions and art styles.

A small shrine run entirely by vending machines.

The only museum in North America dedicated to Memphis hoodoo history.

A lending library of all possible categories of esoteric literature.

See one of the earliest depictions of a Christian ceremony – with a woman at the center!

The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in Boulogne-Billancourt, near Paris, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.

A Fibonnaci spiral model of our solar system.

A Japanese fertility god in the shape of a large phallus.

Tucked into the hills above Rafailovići, this small hidden waterfall offers a rare pocket of calm just minutes from Montenegro’s crowded Adriatic beaches.

The world’s largest museum dedicated to mining, complete with an underground show cave.

An improbable creek near Death Valley, not far from the oldest surviving Euro-American structure in the Mojave Desert.

A museum celebrating mola textiles, the intricate art of the Guna people of Panama.

Celebrating Colombian coffee growers with a big gulp of a sculpture.

An Anatolian immigrant created his own little paradise in the shadow of the Berlin Wall, made possible by the tensions of the Cold War.

Collection of over 1,000 rare and vintage bicycles.

A tongue-in-cheek marker at the place where Robert Barr supposedly created Scotland’s favorite soft drink.

26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.

A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

A unique shopping and dining park created from old shipping containers and filled with local businesses.

The location of the pie company that gave a classic toy its name is now a parking lot.