Places Rogier Wants to Go

Popular tourist destination where witches in dark hats sell dried llama fetuses for good luck.

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

A kaleidoscopic warehouse-maze of handmade neon signs.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

A stone arch leads to a cavernous 1930s spring house tucked away in the Pennsylvania woods.

The oldest Buddhist monastery in Mongolia has survived centuries of invasions, political shifts, and religious purges.

A mysterious monument where a woman who records say never existed was burnt alive for being a witch.

Along the historic Mother Road is an old gas station with a secret counterfeiting past.

One of America’s oldest and spookiest hotels, thanks to the residency of ghosts, dead presidents, and Alfred Hitchcock.

A Christian retreat founded to welcome refugees fleeing from the Nazis during World War II.

Camera cars and condom bikes built from scrap and one man's passion.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

The preserved arm of a third-century sorcerer is believed to have the power to lift curses and spells.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

The largest retailer of seashells in the world.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An illuminated manuscript comprising the life's work of a lone monk, inexplicably decorated with a portrait of Satan himself.

A once-luxurious, now abandoned hotel in the Italian Alps.

This tiny museum's sizable collection is jammed into a former underground public toilet.

A Himalayan monastery claims to have a piece of a centuries-old abominable snowman.

A restaurant modeled after feudal Japan, where the waitstaff are trained as ninjas.

Serving you alcohol with a side of insanity. Also, costumes!