Places labajas Wants to Go

A roundabout in the West Indies that pays tribute to a bus driver who brokered no-nonsense on the school route.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

The Hollywood home of Kermit the Frog and Yoda used to be Charlie Chaplin's film studio.

An open-air, roadside eatery celebrating a historic indigenous cuisine of complicated significance.

The only statue ever crafted by award-winning animator Ray Harryhausen.

It may appear to be a fancy junk yard, but each item has a story to tell and a lesson to impart.

For more than 70 years, this small shop has been a go-to for Kolkata's fountain pen connoisseurs and collectors.

A 21-foot-tall statue of a miner made of scrap metal stands in this West Virginia coal town.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Makers and sellers of the original and finest York Ghosts.

Located in the world's highest-altitude Dark Sky Community, this observatory welcomes amateur and professional astronomers alike.

The two writers famously didn't come to blows over the Oxford comma.

The remote outlaw hideout of Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, and the Sundance Kid.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

A piece of crumbling highway infrastructure was repurposed as a high-tech facility for testing racecars.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Eighteen miniature death-scene dioramas.

Where condemned pirates met their grisly end at the gallows on the River Thames.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

Metal water storage tank turned ethereal concert hall.