Places Lesleylovestea Wants to Go

The original film set of Luke Skywalker's Tatooine home from the 'Star Wars' trilogy.

A science fiction-inspired apartment building designed by a famous Spanish architect.

An underground world of gorgeous, palatial metro stations designed as a nuclear shelter complex.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

According to legend, this boat-shaped henge is built over the grave of a mythic king.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

Skeletons dressed in extravagant 18th century royal costumes cavort in the aisles of this German basilica.

The patron saint of spinsters grasps a container of dried blood.

Bullet holes in the church wall are a reminder of the violence that followed the assassination of a high-ranking Nazi officer.

Looming communist pillar with a Czech twist.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

One of the oldest family businesses in Reykjavík serves lamb-based hot dogs.

This ancient structure was built by a mysterious civilization that was largely destroyed by a volcanic eruption.

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

This incredible college library is a visual masterpiece of mosaic art. It also looks kind of like a giant boombox.

A barbarous band of serpents guard the bases of these Aztec temples.

The hot chocolate here all stems from small, sustainable microproducers in Chiapas and Tabasco.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Superstitious? Discover the witchy side of Mexico through its largest esoteric market.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

The 2,000-year-old Roman columns are hidden within Barcelona's Gothic Quarter.

A remarkable lava formation encloses a line of Buddhist statues that can't be accurately counted, according to local mythology.

This historic castle is one of the oldest and most impressive in all of Japan.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.