Places missrabbitmoon Wants to Go

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

A small window on Via Piella offers a lovely and rare peek at Bologna's lost canals.

One of the world’s most colorful cemeteries, where each pigment is symbolic.

One of the largest bamboo bridges in Asia, located right next to a bamboo school.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Only the foundation remains of the rest stop building that was hit by three large tsunami waves, killing 47 visitors.

These Japanese gardens are blankets of light for dark winter nights.

Mesoamerican monoliths and zoomorphic stones covered in royal visages, ancient mythology, and grand celestial events.

Mongolian Buddhists believe this monastery in the Gobi desert to be the center of the world's spiritual energy.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Island where motor vehicles are banned -- home to the only carless highway in the United States.

This massive stained-glass masterpiece is thought to be the largest Tiffany dome in existence.

This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.

This Connecticut chapel is a starkly modern, and surprisingly colorful, architectural rebel.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The creek where a shark wreaked terror upon New Jersey, and served as the inspiration for "Jaws."

The boulder on which Alexander Hamilton laid his head after a deadly duel can still be visited on the New Jersey coast.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.

This intricate Hindu temple is the largest of its kind outside of India itself and was constructed like a giant puzzle.