Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

A tomb with a window to ensure the interred wasn't buried alive.

Swarms of dainty flying insects swarm into the Petaloudes Valley to get busy.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

For more than 40 years this Barnum-inspired half-fox, half-woman has been telling fortunes from her cage in a Pakistani zoo.

The world's only museum devoted solely to the art and collection of action figures.

This impressive collection of skulls and bones was gathered by an ex-zookeeper who took advantage of a pig plague.

Collection of skeletal systems from the "world's leading supplier of osteological specimens."

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

What better way to honor a pioneering anatomist than by preserving his severed head like a specimen?

The famous sculptor left his mark on this Italian wall in an internationally protected example of street art.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

One of the most remarkable caves in all of Iceland was created by a once raging river of lava.

An Icelandic island full of diving birds and legend.

These concrete domes were installed on an Icelandic bluff to honor a very specific musical tradion.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

This elderly couple's hand-picked collection of rare gems is one of the finest in all of Iceland.

This tiny cabin was home to one of Iceland's most famous painters and was the only land he ever owned.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

A trio of hidden hot tubs takes advantage of Iceland's natural geothermal vents.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

This natural Icelandic fissure allows divers to swim right between two volatile tectonic plates.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.