Places jmallott Wants to Go

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

A Japanese train station built around a 700-year-old camphor tree.

A red sandstone freestanding monolith rises out of the sea in northern Scotland.

This cuddly rodent has a place of honor at a Russian institute for genetic research.

A poignant memorial to a young boy whose death spurred a dramatic increase in organ donations in Italy—dubbed the "Nicholas Effect."

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

A model home in the Medical Examiner's Office in which grisly death scenes are staged to train forensic investigators.

This space age health spa looks like a supervillain's lair.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

The likeness of the Baltimore music icon was unveiled in time for the anniversary of his Senate hearings on music censorship.

Hidden amid the tropical forest in the Caribbean Sea are the decaying ruins of the Cocaine King's luxurious island party home.

A gorge full of caverns where early humans lived alongside cave hyenas, giant mammoths and wooly rhinoceroses.

The first Russian Orthodox church in the Catholic city of Rome in almost a thousand years.

This tiny island featuring 9th-century Viking ruins is only accessible at low tide.

In the town of Åtvidaberg, the midday sun sets off a loud cannon boom.

Sacked by Vikings, blessed by William the Conqueror, dealt a fatal blow during the French Revolution—these ruins have seen it all.

Albuquerque found the perfect use for tumbleweeds at Christmastime.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

This small stone chapel is a hidden gem just outside the University of New Hampshire campus.

A fairytale-like medieval church perched atop a rocky cliff on Italy's "Coast of the Gods."

A memorial to the tens of thousands of Irish who fled to North America during the Great Famine.

The final resting place of many of New Jersey's most famous residents, including U.S. history's most in-vogue antagonist, Aaron Burr.

Just another ancient, mysterious Irish stone circle.