Places jacksonhotaling Wants to Go

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Despite a fraught and controversial history this African island holds a powerful monument to the tragedy of the slave trade.

This deceptively salty lake looks like blushing pink lemonade.

Over 4,700 miles of trees being planted to hold back the desert.

The museum calls itself the "National Museum of the Paranormal" and is full of eerie oddities.

The 400-year-old remains of the samurai invasion of Korea.

Every spring, locals see the shadowy figures of a ghost army of slain Greek soldiers descend upon this ruined fort.

Though much of the castle was robbed of its stones, the underlying earthworks are among the best-preserved in England.

Despite its lavish ornamentation, and wholesome lifestyle of its devotees, this mountain commune has faced its share of issues.

A scientific repository of goiters, boils and other ailments throughout Mexican history.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

CDMX's home for the world's culinary delights.

This crumbling Art Deco movie palace in Mexico City has been abandoned for two decades.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

This small museum displays a collection of outsider art and scale models of past "treatments" for mental illness.

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

Beautiful tiles decorate many of the town's surfaces and stand testimony to its glorious artistic history.

An eerie, existential museum dedicated to the author of "The Metamorphosis."

Before this bridge was built people had to wait for the ferryman, an annoyance that, the story has it, gave the town its name.

A French library that makes sure its love of books is writ large... giant in fact.

Massive fortress bastions in the desert of Cholistan.

This otherworldly palace-mausoleum complex is the stuff eternal dreams are made of.

This magnificent stepwell is designed as an inverted temple and adorned with 1,500 sculptures.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.