Places NickGriffalco Wants to Go

The last inhabitants of one of the U.K.'s most remote islands were evacuated in 1930.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Since 1947, this living history museum has been providing an immersive look at life in Plymouth Colony.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

The hotel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot is now a museum dedicated to his work.

On the grounds of a former estate in Burgundy stands an elaborate temple that is modeled after the first Tibetan Buddhist monastery.

A 150-square-foot masterpiece of American landscape art is the crown jewel of this library and art gallery in Vermont.

The site of Paul Revere's historic two lantern warning.

Fans of the spicy bright-red sauce can tour where it's made.

This 14th-century temple is also known as the "Temple of the Golden Pavilion" for its gorgeous gilded reliquary hall.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

Known as the birthplace of Korean Buddhism, this temple features an ancient, five-story stone pagoda.

"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."

A Parisian exterminator's shop whose storefront displays stuffed rats hanging from traps.

This surreal statue brings a famous French novel about a supernatural cad to arresting life.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

A hole-in-the-wall antiquities museum in one of Tokyo's most popular megamalls.

This enormous "cloth of the conquest" depicts the Norman invasion of England in mind-blowing detail.

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

These Nubian pyramids are strange and unique, even by pyramid standards.

This daunting 1st century fortress was purportedly the site of one of the most dramatic revolts of the Jewish-Roman wars.