Places Perseus Rebelo Wants to Go

Colloquially known as “piss alley,” this narrow street filled with tiny bars and barbecue stands looks like it was pulled straight out of “Blade Runner.”

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Sip “liquid cuisine” made with meat, vegetables, and insects.

Luminaries from Albert Einstein to John Lennon once had a cup of coffee at Tokyo's oldest café.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

This sprawling bookstore spans four floors and has more than a million books in stock.

This museum is home to one of the biggest collections of printing press technology—plus a river view.

One of few vertical lava tubes in the world accessible by foot.

Perhaps the most spectacular grotto along the Algarve coastline.

Entire apothecaries are on display at this Lisbon museum, which explores the history of medicine.

In 1962, the ocean severed this peninsula—and the village that sat on it—from the Angolan mainland.

The site of a Japanese traders’ settlement that once thrived in Ayutthaya, if for less than a century.

A small museum in the Golden Triangle tells the story of the opium drug trade that gripped Northern Thailand.

This mountain sunrise is one of the most breathtaking views in Thailand, yet well off the tourist trail.

Acres of salt crystal pyramids dry in the sun along Thailand's "salt road."

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

Peek into the world of those creating the beautiful, delicate paper parasols found all over the globe.

This museum has a most unusual location: inside a giant, three-headed elephant.

Six times a day a train runs right through the middle of this Thai street market, sending vendors scrambling.

Walk through depictions of the torture inflicted on those who go to Buddhist hell.

A limestone wonderland of water and subterranean secrets.

At the right time of day, sunlight floods through the roof of this cave and illuminates the small pavilion hidden within.

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