Places Caroline Mazel-Carlton Wants to Go

The oldest hotel in the world has been operated by the same family for over 1,300 years, even catering to samurai.

This 17th-century passageway is home to numerous bookshops, a witch legend, and the oldest pizzeria in the world.

A sprawling park in the middle of Pune feels like a magical, enchanted forest from a fairy tale.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

Taste freshly foraged yarrow and black locust blossoms at this ambitious cocktail bar.

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

Visitors can explore the role of mysticism throughout the ages inside this interactive museum of magic.

Residents of Berlin take their coffee and cake in one of the city’s most restful spaces: a cemetery.

The only gallery in New York dedicated to olfactory art and the exploration of scent in art.

Breakfast and lunch in a canteen where the servers and kitchen staff are prison inmates.

Annual celebration commemorating the 1965 sighting of strange lights in the town.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

Named for the 39 tribes that live in Oklahoma, this restaurant's menu deliciously highlights local flavors.

The future of roadside attractions is this sci-fi soda mecca that is home to a 66-foot tall neon pop bottle.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Mobsters came for a soak in the hot springs, and stayed for the illegal gambling and bootlegging.

This museum is dedicated to the history and design of purses.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

Where animatronic singing fish go to retire.

One of the most acclaimed eateries in Arkansas is a two-table diner on the ground floor of a family home.