Places Megan Johnson Wants to Go

This tiny shop has been serving traditional tamales for more than 200 years.

The caldera of this mini-volcano has been turned into a naturally heated mud bath.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A taste of the macabre Tokyo's ritzy shopping district.

Legend says the goddess this shrine honors curses any couples that pass by.

A railway station takeout shop sells boxed meals in containers shaped like trains and snowmen that hold the country’s abundant regional delicacies.

Chilly air billows out from the entrance of an abandoned mine on a steep hillside, providing a refuge for Ice Age fauna and flora.

Dating back almost 400 years, the oldest public collection library in the United Kingdom was once the study hall of Karl Marx.

The silly symbol for an underground protest group is now scattered around the city.

Crosses of all shapes, sizes and colors litter the mountain, the site of a huge yearly Orthodox pilgrimage.

Naturally formed rock city in Poland.

This Polish cave has housed a dragon, a brothel, and an enduring legend.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

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

The romantic botanic tunnel feels like a well-kept secret.

Some call this eerie forest of crooked trees the "Bermuda Triangle of Romania."

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

Ten acres of the Kula Forest Reserve make up this wondrous state park.

This airstrip atoll is uninhabited by humans, but absolutely full of birds.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

This rare collection of human deformities displays fetuses with two faces, one eye, and "mermaid" legs.

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.