Places knwachter Wants to Go

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

This rickety old shed hides a trove of secondhand literary treasures.

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This small Catskills village has six independent bookstores and more bookshops than restaurants.

Hidden on a cattle ranch in Arizona, this bookstore has been celebrating Southwest literature for more than 40 years.

An actual 1957 Cadillac De Ville, encased in 15 cubic yards of concrete.

In 1958, an MIT fraternity pledge laid down on this bridge and instituted a new, unique unit of measurement.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

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

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

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

At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.

This historic address is home to the beloved ball and is an almost totally empty building among the most expensive real estate in the world.

Hundreds of antique bank vault locks on display in New York City.

This New York holdover was built to provide housing for shopgirls and still does not allow men above the lobby.

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

The world's largest bicycle shelter can hold more than 12,500 two-wheelers.

The nude sculpture on this fountain shocked conservative townsfolk when it was first unveiled, but not as much as the dead body found in it decades later.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.