Places jmallott Wants to Go

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

This little known mountain has claimed four times as many lives as Everest.

A sewing machine tycoon built this miniature castle for the people and to beautify a lakeshore.

San Francisco's oldest operating hotel, with a Victorian atmosphere and a "haunted" fourth floor.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Restaurant in Northern Wisconsin comes with a unique feature: a grassy roof covered in living goats.

Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.

An American city stranded at the tip of a Canadian peninsula where strict adherence to the "49th parallel rule" became problematic.

The ruins of this Dutch castle sit atop a labyrinth of once-secret tunnels and passageways, dating back over 900 years.

Vietnam's feral abandoned water park offers access to a post-apocalyptic funscape, now with fewer crocodiles.

For hundreds of years, participants in this Japanese festival have been making babies cry to ward off demons.

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

A pre-Industrial Age iron furnace and the site of a nearly-forgotten piece of Black history.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Covered in tens of thousands of coats of paint, this Indiana attraction holds a world record all its own.

The entire known universe of the ancient Etruscans is held inside this bronze model of a sheep’s liver.

The historic tower houses of this nearly abandoned Greek town have been compared to the spikes on an iguana's back.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

This picturesque Umbrian city has a subterranean side that has long remained hidden.