Places Mike Walker Wants to Go

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

Once a bastion of its community, this gothic cathedral now stands as a haunting ruin.

The library of every book lover's dreams.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

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

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The most iconic structure in Scotland has been home to bishops, colonels, and Sean Connery characters.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

This Welsh hotel is the spiritual home of the British 1953 Everest expedition, the first successful ascent of Mount Everest.

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

Only known mainland rookery of the threatened Stellar sea lion.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.