Places mallorylopez Wants to Go

The grandest stage for the world's foremost masters of invisible instruments.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

One of the few brewers in the U.S. experimenting with hop-free beers.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

South Korea's love of the silly photograph is on full display at this goofy collection of trompe l'oeil paintings.

Mirrors and glass shards cover every inch of this arrestingly beautiful mosque.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Parking garage where Bob Woodward met Watergate source "Deep Throat."

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

An enormous park-like oasis, full of famous Chicagoans’ graves.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

Eclectic collection of rare and beautiful stones in a historic home.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Small museum packed with artifacts recovered by the man rumored to be the real-life inspiration for Indiana Jones.

The second oldest continuously operating bar in Louisiana.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.