Places monadisa Wants to Go

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

An Oxford museum where visitors can have tea with the Mad Hatter and climb through the wardrobe to a fantasy land.

This centuries-old gothic monster has been converted into a sprawling, glossy bookstore.

This enormous secondhand bookstore inside a Victorian train station sparked the "Keep Calm and Carry On" craze.

This Venice bookstore has resigned itself to constant flooding by keeping its books in bathtubs and boats.

The world's largest secondhand book market is a haven for bibliophiles and bargain hunters.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

Catacombs turned marketplace.

The bar where "The Great Train Robbery" was planned was once a nexus of high society and low morals.

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

This 1920s Dutch barge is now a floating bookstore.

The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.

The same water that fills a luxury resort’s pools feeds these free hot springs in the rainforest.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

This 400-year-old sweet shop serves a delicacy some have described as "edible incense."

A temple belonging to the largest Buddhist order in South Korea nestled in the middle of New York City.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

The short hike is worth the stunning views and crystal blue waters of a secluded beach.

Drift through underground caves on a tube.