Places Madeleine Wants to Go

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

Hidden in an ordinary Midtown building is a one-room museum dedicated to the greatest escape artist.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

The longest hedge maze in the world.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

This medieval castle overlooking the Elzbach river looks just like it did hundreds of years ago.

A narrow passage next to a cafe leads to a courtyard exploding with murals, tags, and paste-ups.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A special shop catering to the needs of things that go bump in the night, and also helps kids become writers.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

The 10,000 Torii shrine.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A counter-culture bookstore like no other hides in plain sight in the streets of Paris.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

Two ancient Buddhist temples crown this dramatic rocky pinnacle.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.