Places johnv Wants to Go

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A rare memento of a lost Indigenous group.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

What was once believed to be a church floor turned out to be the artwork of geology.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

The world’s first interactive human body museum also serves as a chair for a giant orange man.

In the Arabian Desert, a surreal rock formation stands cut clean in half.

The largest whale museum in Europe allows visitors to walk among life-size giants.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

This stunning mass of ice spans 121 square miles and is still growing.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

Monkeys lounge around at this 13th century temple.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

Winding country roads in eastern West Virginia lead to an extraordinary place populated by fiberglass giants.

This pre-Hispanic apartment complex also includes ancestral paintings that point to its military past.

The show's fictional Korean medical camp was created in the Santa Monica hills.

Get your meal delivered via pneumatic at this former post office.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

Riding on a pair of architectural dragons, this Thailand temple holds murals full of lurid imagery.

From cartoon characters to tiny tanks, a guerilla sculptor's little bronze statues are hidden throughout the city of Budapest.