Places hapichapi Wants to Go

With former lives as a bomb shelter and government parking lot, this shop is one of China’s most extraordinary locales for book-lovers.

Locals place their offerings on this nightmarish gnarled tree so the witches won't summon another storm.

A plaque marks the humble origins of an artistic muse who embodied the ideals of Pre-Raphaelite beauty.

For 20 years, local pumpkins have met their fate on the iron fence surrounding this Cobble Hill home.

This small roadside eatery exists in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres, as the equator runs right through it.

This glacier interpretation center houses the world’s only bar made completely from glacial ice.

A curiosity-seeker's paradise set inside a three-story historic school house.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

The first and only American institution dedicated to the enduring value of comedy in the United States.

Part shoe store, part sociopolitical art gallery, part zoo.

A sapling of the legendary tree where conquistador Hernán Cortés sat and wept after an Aztec uprising.

This peeling mural of Adam and Eve was inspired by the greenhouses at Kew Gardens.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

Its collection commemorates the author of the iconic children's book "Heidi."

A striking depiction of Teotihuacan's mysterious "Spider Woman."

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Sitting atop a rock on Michamvi Pingwe beach, this restaurant becomes its own island at high tide.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

This intriguing Bronze Age artifact spent centuries hidden within a Welsh faerie hill.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

A beautiful ruin of a 14th-century Plantagenet castle built by a medieval mercenary.

This historic building displays the remains of a victim of the devastating 14th-century plague.

A carved bench marks the Scottish cave that inspired the classic adventure novel "Treasure Island."

A curious cone-shaped structure made of wire and covered with antlers.