Places raquel9e Wants to Go

Knoxville’s architectural icon was the symbol of the 1982 World’s Fair, even catching the googly eye of Bart Simpson.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

A recreation of the doomed ocean liner in the middle of the Smoky Mountains.

This museum housed in a former brothel explores the past and present of sex work in Amsterdam.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

This museum inside Amsterdam's largest cemetery explores how people deal with death.

This unusual elevator doesn’t stop or slow down.

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

A Dutch passageway's artistic, aquatic-themed makeover pays tribute to the capital city's famed waterways.

A beautifully eclectic mix of architectural styles.

The history and future of cannabis.

This historic Amsterdam bar used to accept sailor's monkeys as payment.

Established in 1638 to battle the Black Death, this botanical garden is a treasure trove of rare flora.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Secret North Korean passage discovered below the world's most dangerous border.

The home of a formerly enslaved man who went on to become a prospector, entrepreneur, and activist for Black rights.

Once a lonely sentinel on the edge of the Great Plains, this rebuilt trading fort offers a glimpse of life on the Santa Fe Trail.