Places OldWanderer Wants to Go

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

A magical world of elves and fairies tucked amongst the trees in Colombia.

A scalable map of Colombia with the bonus of a butterfly house.

This statue pays homage to a group of kids's childhood companion who once called the park home.

A park with one large cat sculpture and 15 smaller ones, all painted by different Colombian artists.

This maximum-security prison was abandoned to make way for a national park.

This Bogotá museum houses the world's largest collection of pre-Columbian gold relics.

This narrow street is packed with street vendors and bars selling chicha.

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

Towering high above the neighborhood of La Candelaria, the church is easily recognizable by its distinctive red-and-white striped facade.

This archaeological museum in an 18th-century mansion showcases the country’s finest examples of pre-Columbian ceramics.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

Storied crypts fill the most famous cemetery in Colombia.

A small museum filled with unique fossil finds, including one of the oldest specimens of ground sloths found in Colombia.

Every Sunday, Bogotá turns 75 miles of its city streets into a bicycle superhighway.

Cathedral carved out of salt, located a mile below the Earth's surface.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

The Zalud family experienced a number of tragedies in one decade, giving rise to rumors that the 19th century house is haunted.

This massive statue of John Muir on the side of a California highway was carved from a redwood tree.

This hidden fire lookout offers spectacular views of Sequoia National Park.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The many—66 to be exact—faces of the German forest.

This fountain of a little boy that spits on passersby at erratic intervals is a town icon.