Places lysha Wants to Go

Proceeds from this colorful teahouse in a historic Atlanta neighborhood directly fund women’s education in northeast India.

The French deconstructionist had a weakness for baked goods.

No passport is required to eat around the world at this elegant restaurant.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Filled with history, this cemetery is maintained each summer by a few hungry goats.

A bronze plaque at an intersection in Hoboken marks the place where the game of baseball first took shape.

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

A 1950s beatnik coffee house, turned 60s counterculture hotspot, turned modern music venue.

This museum tucked below a charming cafe gives a brief snapshot of photographic history.

The sixth of London's "Magnificent Seven" cemeteries, and a source of unlikely inspiration to Beatrix Potter.

A collection of comics, graphic novels, animation and caricatures devoted to exploring this often overlooked art form.

A historic London cemetery now serves as a nature park incorporating gravestones & memorial statues.

Beating out all other concrete competitors, this massive garden feature's pointy hat has earned it a world record.

A brick-paved former section of the historic coast-to-coast highway.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

I-95's Tijuana-style celebration of kitsch at the Carolina border.

An eerie site of reverence for those who have completed an epic journey.

An abandoned movie set in the desert of West Texas.

An abandoned mine where dreams of quicksilver trickled away over 75 years ago.

An abandoned quicksilver mining town surrounded by the Big Bend parks.

Ghost town with a beer-drinking goat for mayor.

A little stop along the Texas highway where Rock Hudson, Elizabeth Taylor, and James Dean stayed while shooting the 1955 film "Giant."

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

This old abandoned sign flickers to announce a motel that isn't even there.