Places Matthew Bean Wants to Go

Largest gathering of hobos in the country has been meeting annually since 1900.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Sway your way across Virginia’s longest river on a rickety wooden bridge.

A rare chance to get up close and personal with a 13-mile ribbon of ice near downtown Juneau.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A striking depiction of Teotihuacan's mysterious "Spider Woman."

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

This mysterious anthropomorphic statuette is on display at the National Museum of Oman.

A museum in England’s Lake District dedicated to the trusty pencil wants you to know the story of their World War II spy pencils.

An old locomotive hides deep in the forest.

This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.

French scientists make up the majority of the few humans to occupy this remote island in the extreme southern Indian Ocean.

The fully functional, submerged Vanuatu Post Office is definitely one of a kind.

The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.

Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.

Now home to nothing but a weather station and a landing strip, a group of enslaved people were marooned on this tiny island for 15 years.

Every October, one of the largest migration of mammals in the world thunders through Boma National Park.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Generations of rockhounds got their start at this beloved, historic mine.

A gorilla holding a VW Beetle isn't what you'd expect in rural Vermont.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

This gravelly, dangerous highway is the only road in the United States that leads to the Arctic Ocean.