Places Sam Wants to Go

This Jewish bakery, among the last in the region, sells legendary sweets from a century-old storefront.

This medieval "painted village" is famous for its geometric facades.

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This Nigerian nature reserve is home to the longest canopy walkway in Africa.

Rock-cut cave complex filled with ancient Buddhist artwork.

400-year-old garden, restored to beauty.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

The ruins of an 11th-century Norman castle with a rare, perfectly circular shape.

This sprawling stronghold has been at the center of some of South India's bloodiest wars.

The village where the park and museum are located is also the third-biggest hatchery of dinosaurs discovered.

A nearly unconquerable island-fort in the Indian Ocean.

This precariously balanced boulder is said to be a hunk of stolen butter dropped by the gods.

An eclectic mix of influences rot together in harmony in this India necropolis.

Deep in the Thar desert, a temple crawling with thousands of holy rats.

The world's largest banyan tree is followed by a community of worshippers.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

This hill is known for its connection to the occult in Slavic tradition.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.

This Neapolitan exhibition hall grants weird and wonderful insight into the intricacies of human biology.

The burial place of an obscure North African saint was turned into a macabre body preservation factory for the 17th-century Neapolitan elite.

An underground paleo-Christian burial site composed of the remains of several cemeteries and Basilicas.

This shining multicolored metro station deep under Naples is said to be the most beautiful in Europe.

Skulls from the plague of 1656 and World War II bombings are united by a cult dedicated to caring for the ancient dead.