Places Noodle Wants to Go

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

Home to Alan Turing, the cracking of the Enigma code, and Captain Ridley's shooting party.

A 200-year-old prison that now houses a peculiar crime museum.

Puzzles within puzzles hide a golden treasure in this hedge maze.

This iconic 1,000-year-old medieval castle is a favorite of the film industry, most notably as the location for Hogwarts in Harry Potter.

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

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

A museum in the childhood house of a medical pioneer.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

A vortex fountain that seems to rise out of the ground.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.

There might not be much left of these Irish ruins, but their linguistic legacy is still going strong.

This mummified mermaid corpse is an aquatic curio that was eventually revealed to be a fake.

A random tree outside a Budapest hotel has become a DIY shrine to the late singer.