Places iellwen Wants to Go

The Icelandic Sea Monster Museum explores the area's history of aquatic cryptid sightings.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

Essence of hound's tongue and tincture of bloodroot are just the tip of the herbalist iceberg at this beautiful, impressively-stocked apothecary.

Hollywood's most famous landmark, the "temporary" sign that has stood for decades longer than intended.

It should come as no surprise that the best view of the Hollywood sign is from Batman's lair.

A library of rare occult books in Los Angeles.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

Cretean quarry suggests real-life site for ancient Greek myth of the man-eating Minotaur in his labyrinth.

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

The world's oldest map of the holy land gives us a fragmented glimpse of the layout of biblical nations.

Brightly painted boulders scattered throughout the Sinai Desert.

A minotaur, a labyrinth, and a dubious restoration pull in visitors from around the world.