Places mikkitta Wants to Go

This pirate-broadcasting-tower-turned-restaurant played a rebellious role in the history of Dutch television.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

An Amsterdam street lined with antique shops each one dedicated to a different obscure collection.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

What was to be the world's most secure Cold War document vault ended up as just a few shallow caves.

The frozen bubbles that form on the icy surface of this Canadian lake contain enough methane to create a small explosion.

The ruins of the "20-year town" lay out among the mountains of Alberta.

This mysterious tower is said to enshrine a dormant seven-headed serpent that once protected Vientiane from destruction.

Villagers have recycled bomber fuel tanks from the Vietnam War and turned them into very, very strong boats.

A boat ride through utter darkness, lit only by headlamps, reveals an emerald green pool locals believe is sacred.

Buried in the Laos jungle is a sanctuary for bears that would have otherwise been milked to death by poachers.

Thousands of effigies of Buddha watch from caves set high above a legendary river, plus whiskey.

An ancient jungle temple carved into a rocky overhang of the Dane Soung Plateau.

More than 200 statues filled with cryptic symbols give this park spot an aura of horror vacui fantasy.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

This beautifully historic Bahrain fortress might not be the most popular attraction around, but that might make it all the better.

The ruins of an abandoned 17th-century fort that was almost completely destroyed by a fire.

The largest and, arguably, most scenic fortress in Bhutan.

Strange, gentle beasts resembling goat-cow hybrids roam within this patch of forest.