Places performing Wants to Go

Hundreds of stone stairs and a winding medieval bridge connect this haunting Spanish island to the mainland.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

The legendary birthplace of the Japanese maneki-neko is dotted with hundreds of lucky beckoning cats.

Bizarre living fossil only grows in a small chunk of the Namib Desert.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

The largest known meteorite on Earth was too big to move.

This deceptively beautiful island was once home to a German concentration camp and known as "Death Island."

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

As lake waters recede, a German village reemerges after more than a hundred years.

A quaint Russian village in the middle of a German metropolis.

A solitary tree has grown up all alone on Lake Wānaka, backdropped by the beautiful Southern Alps.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

While this is positively the smallest library in Canada, it aspires to be the smallest in the world.

An organ located deep within a cave, whose "pipes" are the geological features of the cave itself.

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

A sealed test tube said to hold Thomas Edison's dying breath was given to the inventor's friend and mentee, Henry Ford.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

The Incredible Hulk, Yoda, Mulder and Scully, and many many others watch over the mean streets of Toronto.

A 24-hour vending machine restocked daily with homemade full-sized pecan pies.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

What started as a tongue-in-cheek shrine is now a full-blown museum celebrating "The Hoff" and his longtime love affair with Berlin.

It's big, it's a ball, and it's made of twine—the world's largest of its kind.