Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

Danish tourist destination well known for open stalls where vendors sell marijuana on the street.

Hitler's bleak vision of relaxation still stands as a mostly abandoned 10,000-room resort complex.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

The simple log cabin of a famed loner and naturalist stands preserved as a symbol of the ultimate DIY lifestyle.

The whole world in one water tank.

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

The evolution of recreational vehicles and motorhomes is on display in the “RV capital of the world."

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

This little town supplies Japan with most of its calligraphy brushes, still made by hand from animal fur.

This sandwich shop has a century-old elevator behind a sheet of plexiglass.

This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

An ancient instrument used to measure the waters of the Nile so Egyptian farmers would know whether to expect famine or flood.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

The giant skeleton sculpture is surprisingly well-traveled.

A unique park tells the geological history of Belarus in a national “map” of thousands of boulders and blue spruce.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.