Places jmallott Wants to Go

A Buddhist temple to honor insects that died for science.

"Bug Bug" Land, a natural park for beetle watching, still hasn't fully recovered from Fukushima's nuclear disaster.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This church sits upon a peaceful hill and a long, turbulent history.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

Montreal's colorful subway station shows its support of the local LGBT+ community.

A progressive LGBTQ hub offers dancing, HIV testing, art, and more.

Tucked away near more famous landmarks lies a statue meant to symbolize the confluence and continuing development of human culture.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A planned settlement in Pennsylvania once housed the aristocratic refugees of the French Revolution.

Stonehenge has nothing on Castlerigg’s views.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Remember that scene in the Matrix, when Neo is in the big white room with all the weapons flying by? Well, this is what it would look like if he had wanted trees instead of guns.

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

Within the Saudi Arabian desert lies a 2,000-year-old ghost town made of stone and mud.

The largest canoe collection in the world—and the most Canadian museum ever.

A small island abbey is the final resting place of many medieval Scottish monarchs, including the real Macbeth.

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

The explorer Captain Cook may have named it White Island, but the Maori call it Te Puia o Whakaari – The Dramatic Volcano.

The floor of the oldest surviving synagogue in the Americas is entirely covered in sand.