Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

The feminist fashion collective centering Palestinian craftsmanship and radical transparency.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

This field of half-buried stone crosses was the burial place of a sect of heretical gnostics.

A mythical garden that once grew the golden apples of wisdom is said to have existed in this ancient Moroccan city.

When life gives you Prohibition, open a bar in Juárez.

Crisp mountain water cascades over volcanic rocks at these secluded falls outside Pagosa Springs.

An ancient monastery, a locked room, and a mysterious book heist.

A fantastical display of Croatian folklore, mythology, and myths.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

Japan's hottest hot spring has a memorable name.

A network of ancient tunnels and vaulted chambers with mystical Buddhist reliefs, built for ascetic training.

Running through lush forests and across the Tadami River, this train line offers breathtaking views of rural Japan.

Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.

This historic pink parlor keeps Phoenicians cool with homemade, retro ice creams.

Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park is home to one of Polynesia’s largest petroglyph fields.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

A somber statue commemorating a Danish merfolk-tale.

Mexico’s first synagogue set up by and for the Ashkenazi Jewish community.

This massive, ancient canal system was built using only sticks and stones.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.

Locals have put a new makeup on this strange statue every year since they unearthed it.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

Where a demonstration led to equal rights for one of California's most marginalized communities.