Places jonathanmicklos Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

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

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

A master of trompe-l'oeil creates a stunning, tourist-fooling dome out of a flat ceiling.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The world's longest known cave system.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Hanging over one of Japan’s “hidden valleys,” these vine bridges must be remade every three years.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.