Places relizh Wants to Go

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

These crumbling towers are some of the last remnants of a centuries-old Vietnamese culture.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.

One of the few remaining American elm trees in New York’s Tompkins Square Park was the birthplace of a new religion.

An abandoned marine theme park has created a difficult experiment in dolphin rewilding.

William Faulkner kept his beloved estate wild and untamed.

This enormous Hindu temple in Queens serves incredible dosas in its basement canteen.

Crumbling ruins mark the site of a couple's grisly murder in the woods.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A majestic lion statue guards this Parisian botanical garden, and feeds on an unsettling item.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

"In the Dark" Restaurant in Paris offers dinner in complete darkness.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

A museum of magic with a Sadist past.