Places jesadair Wants to Go

An unfinished tomb carved into a giant boulder in the Arabian Desert.

Clap your hands at the base of the pyramid, and the song of a sacred Mayan bird will echo through the air.

This centuries-old Italian chapel hangs midway down a sheer cliffside.

A mysterious spirit totem at the edge of Navajo lands.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

A Japanese concept restaurant that feels like a party thrown by the monsters in your closet.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

The home of the world's first and last remaining "wooly ant."

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

An extraordinarily ornate museum in San Diego holds wondrous anthropological treasures.

Her final resting place was intended to be modest and private, but the power of her popularity continues to draw visitors.