Places jesadair Wants to Go

The city is full of whimsical portals to another world.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Hell on Earth is actually a small town in Michigan where anyone can be mayor for a day.

Tucked away in the forests of Indiana resides an abandoned waterslide that is now a popular graffiti haunt.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

Inside this former medieval prison is a collection of objects designed to inflict unbelievable pain and suffering on the human body and mind.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

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

Fourteen curious and controversial white bunnies sit in a circle near Newport Beach City Hall.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

This South London cemetery holds the remains of more than 15,000 people.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

A glimpse into the "Logging Capital of the World" at a time when there was far more forest and far less machinery.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

An emporium for the weird, creepy, rare, and just plain gross.

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

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.