Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A photogenic rock-art site that is also a popular climbing and canyoneering area.

An abandoned mining area now part of a gorgeous national park.

In Chicago, an empty relic of a time when neighborhood zoos were more common.

These megalithic tombs contain some of the largest stones ever moved in prehistory.

A rural church displays a kaleidoscope of local craftsmanship and sacred art.

This massive redwood tree has a drive-thru tunnel carved out of its trunk.

Soaring mural splashed across 70-year-old silos in Michigan.

A group of monuments to the Cherokee origins of Tennessee.

Fanatical collections of vintage toys, dolls, clothes, and objects.

A vivid and terrifying mural blends pop-culture-style depictions of Hell with traditional Orthodox imagery.

These stunning arched rock formations might be familiar to Windows 10 users.

In spite of its medieval appearance and name, this building actually dates back to the Industrial Revolution.

Miniatures built in the 1980s tell the city’s favorite legends and ghost stories.

A museum of broadcasting with an array of vintage equipment and its own active transmitter.

A rare surviving stone building from the Spanish colonial era.

A dilapidated Victorian mansion sits in the middle of a Virginia golf course.

A haunted outpost in Moldova, where guards are said to have fired at a ghostly figure.

A goblet-shaped rock that, according to lore, is the home of an elven hermit.

This is the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler Vlad III Dracul.

Modest but unique pyramid built for a pharaoh has been reduced to a “heap of stone.”

An enigmatic temple with complicated history, at the center of Sri Lanka.

This enormous statue of the Buddha is a response to the destruction of the Bamiyan statues in Afghanistan.

This museum in Chiapas honors Bishop Samuel Ruiz García, a key figure of the Zapatista movement.

Students pray here in hopes of entering one of Japan’s most prestigious universities.