Places mj48155 Wants to Go

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

This collection of illusory paraphernalia has been culled from the history of London's premier magician's club.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

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

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

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

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

During prohibition, corrupt city officials ran drinking dens under the streets of Downtown Los Angeles.

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.