Places MFB Wants to Go

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

Once in disrepair, this popular Texas stop along iconic Route 66 has been restored to its past glory.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A magical museum of fairy tale treasures near Cyprus' buffer zone.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

The small family-run business has kept alive the fading art of creating beautiful handmade book covers.

Though technically an illegal structure, this eclectic DIY apartment complex is beloved by its residents.

A meow-velous tribute to a beloved street cat, made famous on the internet.

Find out what it sounds like when doves cry at Prince's recording studio estate turned museum.

A real-life replica of a home from Hayao Miyazaki's beloved movie "My Neighbor Totoro."

The Virginia farm where John Wilkes Booth met his grisly end is now largely forgotten.

A thick blanket of beautiful pampas grass cloaks this unique Japanese landscape.

This North Carolina store preserves a historic moment in America's movement for racial equality.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

The Kalamazoo factory has 100 years of instrument-making, and one big wartime secret.

A vintage video game wonderland in downtown Reykjavik.

Beautiful antiques and obscure engineering artifacts trace the evolution of phones from rare luxuries to ubiquitous.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

An enormous playhouse designed to look like 21 stacked Lego bricks, with another 25 million colorful Legos inside.

A 1,500-year-old, 3-story subterranean city where ancient Persians took refuge in times of war.