Places jules Wants to Go

Cuba's historical trains remind natives of their country's sugary sweet past.

Largest pre-Lent festival in the Dominican Republic.

Remote Honduran Islands with a colorful history.

A town filled with hot chocolate, dazzling lights, and lots of Christmas cheer.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.

An ornate Detroit church, left empty and ravaged by time.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

A complex of six forts embedded in the Rajasthan hills.

The watery grave of Captain Bligh's famous ship.

A swing to dangle you off the very edge.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

The "original web site," this farm in Northern Vermont encourages orb-weaver spiders to build their daily webs, and then sells the preserved masterpieces.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.