Places elvenking42 Wants to Go

A brick building in Kathmandu's Durbar Square is home to Nepal's most prominent living goddess.

This historic square in Nepal is home to temples dating back to the third century.

This religious site features Nepal’s largest statue of Buddha.

Visitors to the National Museum of Nepal can moon over a set of well-traveled flags.

Idaho’s largest, deepest limestone cave is known for its quirky rock formations and bat population.

Star garnets are so rare that you can only find them in two places on Earth—here, you can dig for them.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

This U.S. natural reserve is an ancient spiritual place and rock climber’s paradise.

A scale model of our Solar System, where physical representations of the Sun and planets have been placed along a route in the local park.

This unassuming brick building contains the last purpose-built drill hall in the United Kingdom.

Local legend claims that this is the final resting place of an infamous cannibal hag.

This public lavatory is home to a mini museum that explores toilets through time.

A pair of rivaling shrines dedicated to Lady Oiwa, the most famous vengeful ghost in Japan.

These giant yellow bowling pins seem to be defying gravity.

This island castle now hosts a world-famous opera festival.

A monument tucked within a suburban neighborhood commemorates the first nonstop flight across the Pacific Ocean.

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.

A phone booth that combines public art and climate change awareness.

A notable example of Prairie School architecture that disregarded Victorian concepts about room divisions and featured a long, narrow floor plan.

The only museum in the world dedicated to the global, historic, and modern art of beadwork.

Meet me at the most confusing intersection in Seattle.

A 19th-century pharmacy converted into a bookstore.

A sculpted indigenous garden featuring more than 60 works by Dylan Lewis.

This mysterious sign claims an American astronomer haunts the building—but is it true?