Places flblom Wants to Go

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

A limestone grotto where daylight filters in from below and turns the water a beautiful turquoise. Also home to a small underwater nativity scene.

An open-air sculpture museum in a park in Alcorcón.

A lonely chimpanzee lures you into a narrow alley leading to this hidden shrine.

A gruesome combat between a hunter and a furious momma bear.

The 18th-century inspiration behind Harry Potter's Sorting Hat.

This iconic meat-and-three seasons every dish with ancestral cooking knowledge from South Carolina’s Lowcountry.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Ella Fitzgerald, opera singer Enrico Caruso, and dancer Isadora Duncan all performed in this lavish, supposedly haunted theater.

Perhaps the only one of its kind, the nearly-forgotten site once held mortal (and rigged) gladiatorial games between tigers and imperial war elephants.

A must for film lovers in Madrid and home to the Spanish Film Library's projection space.

This unassuming bookstore in the heart of Madrid is one of the oldest in Spain.

An old tree that is the final resting place for many pair of shoes.

Buttermilk biscuits so nice, you'll say “yay” twice.

A 1930s Art Deco swimming pool with a design inspired by grand ocean liners.

Middle-earth in the middle of Switzerland.

This site commemorates the birthplace of the game of basketball, invented by James Naismith in the winter of 1891.

A giant statue perched on dumpsters watches over the freeway.

A mountaintop shrine named for the road to heaven.

The hairpin turns in this mountain road take the shape of a letter—is it a coincidence or a symbol of love?

A herd of half-sized cow sculptures has stood in this part for nearly 50 years.

A hidden courtyard houses early 20th-century plaster masterpieces.

A former Tibetan monk made a name for himself selling some of the best beef momos in New York.

Former private property that was hidden up a trail in the woods with thousands of bright yellow daffodils.