Places MissBex Wants to Go

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

Despite repeated attempts to make it work, this former mining town is now nothing but dust and memories.

Réunion Island's highest point is a two-million-year-old volcano and a paraglider's paradise.

The alleged house of the Virgin Mary is tucked away in a park and nature preserve on Mt. Koressos in Turkey and is holy to both Catholics and Muslims alike.

This tiny Hawaiian island is slowly coming back to life after being bombed during naval training exercises.

A Cajun-style Christmas on the river also involves sky-high pyres and explosives.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

This fortress in Honduras was built to resist pirates, but its builders had more to fear from the British.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Be it nature, art, or abandoned military architecture this eclectic German "museum" has you covered.

This crumbling UFO is one of only a few remaining "moveable ski chalets" of its kind.

The location of the last witch trials of Italy, known as "The Salem of Europe."

In 1830, cemetery workers in Cham unearthed a chamber housing thousands of skeletal remains from the 13th century, which can still be viewed today.

A massive concentration of algae is responsible for this lake's pink hue.

This Tennessee museum is dedicated to a tragic railroad hero who inspired the famous ballad that bears his name.

The history of whiskey and all of its boozy glory, from Colonial days to modern American cocktail culture.

The world's largest ginkgo tree contains a hollow so large a man once lived in it for two years.

From lefty Jewish gathering site to hip cultural site in just 80 years.

A community-run museum invites visitors to explore Jewish communities before and after the Holocaust.

A few stone foundations and an old graveyard are all that is left of this once thriving settlement in the wilds of Connecticut.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.