Places ktart Wants to Go

Where there's quartz, there must be gold. Thus is the story of the mines of Julian, and the titillating times of the Gold Rush.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

A cave dwelling that was started by the Celts, expanded by monks, and finished by knights.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Some of the tallest ancient American ruins continue to inspire awe and curiosity.

This unlicensed collection of fast-food memorabilia sits on the site of the first ever McDonald's restaurant.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

Storybook cottage in Beverly Hills was once the site of 1920s silent film studio, affectionately known as "The Witch's House."

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A colorful architectural gem in Seattle’s uniquely modern Central Library.

Walk through Czech history in Prague's largest graveyard.

These blingy, baubled skeletons lie in glass boxes inside a baroque Bavarian church.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

Home to drunken tower-climbing goats... seriously.

A fake town founded by Western movie stars is now becoming a hip desert community.

Soaring over 6,000 feet in the Bavarian Alps, this beer garden was once Hitler's 50th birthday present.

"The House That Love Built" is shying away from "The House That Ghosts Love."

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

The ruins of this antebellum sugar plantation are the end result of a Seminole attack during the Florida Wars of 1836.