Places mocchiatto Wants to Go

An extended zoological collection that doubles as a time capsule.

An abandoned film set location for a remote spaceport in a galaxy far, far away hides in the Tunisian desert.

The original movie set for the home of 'Star Wars' hero Luke Skywalker.

One of the largest aviation events in the world brings half a million aircraft enthusiasts to Wisconsin each year.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.

This small hill features the most notable collection of petroglyphs in Saguaro National Park.

A centuries-old bar once frequented by Picasso, Hemingway, and Dalí.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The location where the iconic movie character declared it was time to go home.

These mid-century motels once housed the workers who built the Glen Canyon Dam.

Try maple leaf tempura at the trailside shop that brought it back from oblivion.

Romance fans worldwide make the pilgrimage to this group of historic covered bridges in rural Iowa.

This 16th-century building features a flamenco stage on its ground floor and a torture museum on its upper floors.

Mysterious texts covered in mystical symbols were found in caves at this site centuries ago.

It's just another skyscraper, but it's shaped like '90s cell phone.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This 39-foot-tall version of a Hopi figure stands in Arizona.

A once-thriving hotel from the Old West now sits abandoned, under the threat of demolition.

The woman who helped save 15th-century France was born in this humble home.

Partially submerged Buddha heads freckle Chicago’s neighborhoods.

Dunk your churros in rich hot chocolate on the city’s old “Chocolate Street.”

A house and yard adorned with bizarre concrete sculptures in a Milwaukee suburb.

Fill up your senses in this beautiful riverside garden, dedicated to the works of singer-songwriter John Denver.

This color-changing crater lake in El Salvador is occasionally impenetrable to sunlight.