Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

Like something out of a bad acid trip, this Ukraine hallway has been covered in hallucinatory phantasmagoria.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Wax models of disease and deformity are on display at this German medical museum.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

A beautifully detailed Victorian house designed to be easy to flee, built by a man haunted by fire.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

A naturally occurring tunnel in this Nordic mountain makes it look like it's been shot.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

Over 600 vacuum cleaners stack the shelves of what may be the cleanest museum in America.

A rambling museum which honors the beauty in everyday objects.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

This old-fashioned carhop restaurant gave the world the waffle cone.

This extensive collection of dead bugs may be the world's most idiosyncratic and personal insect museum.

This "floating railway" is one of the world's oldest monorail systems.

Plains of ash and pair of semi-active volcanoes contribute to the otherworldly beauty of this little-known Vanuatu island.

The oldest teak bridge in the world is made from the remains of a royal palace.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

The scene of one of the darkest moments in American labor history has been left essentially untouched since the tragedy.

The Japanese mayo factory famous for its cute mascot.

Some of the clearest water anywhere in the world.

Two massive boulders, rocking back and forth with the ebbing of the sea.