Places performing Wants to Go

The storied English village that pretended to be insane inspired NYC's nickname and the fictional namesake in the DC Comics universe.

Centuries before the modern seismograph, Armenian monks measured quakes with this tilting pillar.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The forest that inspired Winnie-the-Pooh's Hundred Acre Wood can be found outside London.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

Neon signs that grace the windows of Bergdorf Goodman's and Tiffany & Co. come from this studio in Brooklyn.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

The Arctic Circle runs through this isolated spot north of Iceland.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

In the northernmost city in the world, it's illegal to be buried because it’s too cold for bodies to decompose.

The world's largest squirrel statue clutches a pecan bigger than your head.

When Motown musicians came to Nashville in the 1960s they stayed at this historic record-pressing company because hotels wouldn't host them.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

The abandoned "Red Star Train Graveyard" is the final rusting place for precious artifacts of train history.

An abandoned jewel of a ballroom on the top floor of Australia’s busiest rail station echoes with the sounds of a bygone era.

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

Inaccessible by foot, Japan's most secluded train station sits in the middle of nowhere.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

This ordinary set of steps is a must-see destination for fans of a certain romantic anime.

Unlikely place for krautrock legends to hang out.