Places PauI Wants to Go

An uninhabited village that preserves and documents rural architecture and an endangered way of life.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Inside a London bookstore, a fireplace that once belonged to the illustrator responsible for a famous set of tarot cards.

Mysterious chains and iron stakes adorn this strange grave, with no explanation.

An ancient pagan site swirling with legends in the foothills of Franconian Switzerland.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

These "anatomical machines" are only one of the many strange items in this Italian crypt.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

This grave in a ghost town cemetery marks the death of a witch on a day that never happened.

There is a small island in the Gulf of Nicoya where the only human inhabitants are dead.

A succinct inscription commemorates the ebb and flow of a woman's life.

Legend says that this short Canadian tunnel still holds the dying screams of a girl who burned alive.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

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

A mysterious, perhaps haunted plot of land, untouched by modern development.

Hundreds of "animals" created from scrap metal, alongside a collection of other oddities.

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

In the oldest zen temple stands a descendant of the very tree that introduced tea to Japanese culture.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

A man's curious and seriously small handmade objects from around the world.

A faceless folk hero and his legacy of comfortable, expertly-crafted chairs lives on in a small Tasmanian town.

The metal bird, nicknamed "Sandy," stands nearly 40 feet tall and is an homage to the birds that migrate through North Dakota every year.

They say the internet is forever but just in case, the shiba inu behind an iconic meme has been immortalized in bronze.