Places jules Wants to Go

A nondescript building that's been functioning as a speakeasy for nearly a century and a half.

Museum of science fiction, utopias, and extraordinary journeys of the mind.

Strange sandstone canyon known as the "place broken by itself."

A Turkish ghost town abandoned in a population exchange with Greece.

This Arctic storage facility is a secure backup for agricultural biodiversity.

The abandoned village of Skarð aptly illustrates the idiom "Don't put all your eggs in one basket."

A "miracle" that seems to produce more holy fistfights than holy revelations.

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

The Cathedral of Salamanca has a number of unusual carvings but none so surprising as a modern astronaut.

Abandoned substation turned village treasure.

A Surreal flight of architectural fancy in Vietnam's Central Highlands.

Renaissance hospital featuring a rotating door into which unwanted babies were dropped.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

On the Pakistan-India border the militaries perform an elaborate theater of aggression each and every night.

The self-made house sculpture of an outsider artist who named himself "Chief Rolling Thunder."

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.