Places marksuz Wants to Go

This museum devoted to the gothic author holds such interesting ephemera as his socks and walking stick.

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

A 300-yard long natural tunnel runs through a ridge deep in the Appalachian Mountains.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Amazing and mysterious Neolithic settlement on Scotland's Orkney Islands.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

The highest bridge in America was built for an almost unnervingly small amount of money.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

The eccentric mansion of one of the most popular horror authors of modern times.