Places khsands Wants to Go

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

The most alien-looking place on Earth.

From scholastic to sepulchral - now under reconstruction.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

A piece of outsider public art accompanied by a strange urban legend.

An Irish church where an 800-year-old mummy is reaching out of his coffin as if to shake hands.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A take-out restaurant that only serves cuisine from countries with which the United States is in conflict.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

The one-time watch house for incoming ships at the Golden Gate now stands abandoned and hidden in trees.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.