Places Madeleine Wants to Go

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A series of caves under Castle Hill that once held the prisoner Vlad Tepes, better known as Count Dracula.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

A trail of iron footwear stands as a monument to the thousands executed along this riverbank during WWII.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

Not quite the menace it once was, this monster still has some chops.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

Behind the pink curtain, Au Bonheur du Jour, an art gallery of erotic archives.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.