Places Madeleine Wants to Go

1,001 carved statues of the Buddhist God of Mercy, each with a unique face.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A massive underwater sinkhole made famous by Jacques Cousteau.

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

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Historic funicular railway, believed to be the shortest railroad in the world.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This Buddhist temple is home to the graves of the Japanese national legends, the 47 Ronin.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

The original toys that inspired the beloved children's stories are on display at the New York Public Library.

A collection of abandoned typographic signs from Berlin and beyond.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A 19th-century artistocrat's mansion, turned into a library, hidden in a modern library.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

Art and a pun, all in one.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

A makeshift shrine to the late rock star is still kept up on the nondescript façade outside 1 Logan Place.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.