Places Madbenlia Wants to Go

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

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

The childhood home of one of Ohio's favorite sons, pilot and war hero Eddie Rickenbacker.

A local scoured more than 1,000 acres for stone to create his masterpiece.

Japanese island famous for poison gas and fluffy bunnies.

The Sun King's military models, saved from the Louvre.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

A futuristic temple of light uses prisms and rainbows to create an atmosphere of peace.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

This Japanese national treasure was originally built in 593.

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

This whimsical campus lawn is dotted with large sculpted numbers and hidden mathematical formulas.

Saintly bones pressed into a wax effigy of a Catholic superstar.

Abandoned former poorhouse, bible college, and haunted house in an Ohio hamlet.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

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

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.