Places jmallott Wants to Go

A hotel in Taiwan based on the better business practices that can be gleaned from Jewish law.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

Locals believe the purity of this huge, untouched Arctic lake could be the salvation of human civilization.

This European portal tomb has a capstone that weighs around 150 tons.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

A hermit's tiny cell built into the cliffside that saved him in South Pembrokeshire.

An astounding annual light display honors the victims of one of Japan's most devastating earthquakes.

This Tibetan monastery has survived multiple attacks and is also a sky burial site.

This poor little statue is the most vandalized memorial in Washington.

The Cambridge pub where Francis Crick announced that he and James Watson had discovered the DNA double-helix.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

A tiny cafe that recreates the Japanese elementary school lunch experience.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The second oldest Jewish graveyard in the U.S. is tiny, with connections to George Washington and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

A fairy garden in an old hotel hidden in La Marquesa forest.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.