Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

A unique museum tells the story of the day-to-day life of World War I soldiers.

It might not be as impossible to reach as its name would imply, but just about.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

There’s a secret bunker inside the Brooklyn Bridge, but the city won’t say where.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

This intricately carved and hilariously huge bed was such a famous symbol both Shakespeare and Byron used it in their writing.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

One philanthropist's extensive collection of knick-knacks and curiosities is now a public museum of oddity.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

During an annual Catholic feast in this tiny Spanish village, men dressed as devils leap over rows of babies to cleanse them of sin.

The streets of a sleepy Spanish town proudly exhibit some of the world's finest graffiti.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Once an indicator of social class, the color blue has come to define this city on the edge of the Thar Desert.

The bones of some 7,000 soldiers killed in the historic Battle of Solferino are stored here.

A stunning, abandoned limestone quarry in southern Indiana provided the stone to erect the Empire State Building.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

17,400 lbs., 12 feet in diameter, and 29 years in the making.

Mine your own precious stones.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

A historic London pub with prison cells in the cellar and a "spy room" on the second floor.

Housed in a century-old building, this museum's dedicated not just to soft drinks, but to the free enterprise system.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.