Places jshook Wants to Go

An art deco ice cream shop covered in vintage tiles.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

This rare volcano spews the strangest and (literally) coolest lava in the world.

These mysterious petroglyphs in Vermont reflect a troubled history in the treatment of Native American culture.

An oddities shop that dabbles in the deathly and beautiful.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Somewhere between an art studio and a print shop, this artists storefront is a house of worship devoted to type.

Handsomely crafted representations of our round planet.

Hundreds of dwarf beeches create an unusual, haunting forest in the north of France.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

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

The second building of its name to occupy this location might be the finest flatiron building in San Francisco.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Ukraine's oldest operating pharmacy now offers guests a fascinating walk through apothecary history.

300 years of pharmaceutical history on display.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Hundreds of antiquated typewriters and office machinery show the technological evolution of business.