Places Shermansky Wants to Go

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

These former Nazi anti-aircraft towers offer a singular view of the north of Berlin in the summer, and a sanctuary for bats in winter.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Two graffiti towers stand like ghosts of Vancouver's World War II-era defensive outpost.

The incorrupt tongue of the patron saint of lost things is venerated in this basilica.

The world's only bushplane museum captures the spirit of the early planes and pilots and their contributions to northern life in Canada.

A fairytale Gothic castle steeped in Nazi treasure conspiracy theories.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

South Korea's largely symbolic, barely used gateway to the North.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The macabre collection of Jacques Sirgent, an expert scholar on the undead and all of their trappings.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

This tiny square mile of Canadian sand was once considered the world's smallest desert.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.