Places pamelajoon Wants to Go

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

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

Now famous as the "Harry Potter bridge," this impressive concrete viaduct has long been an icon in its own right.

The highest peak in the United Kingdom has a history of physics, specters, and a pilgrimage of strange objects.

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

This tiny abode has been covered in the art of the little old lady who made her life and living there.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

A haunted hill that supposedly defied gravity.

Believed to be haunted, this old cemetery is beautifully adorned with Spanish moss hanging from the trees.

The possible imprisonment of Vlad the Impaler here earned the medieval castle its nickname, "Dracula's Castle."

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.