Places Sarah Durn Wants to Go

Housed in a stunning Victorian building, this museum has the largest exhibition of knives, blades, penknives, and scissors in Spain.

Mosques carved from coral and dozens of well-preserved stone structures fill this 500-year-old Swahili trading center.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

A 14-foot-tall Bigfoot statue stands guard over this café and filming location.

A mysterious, abandoned Chinese building in Mexico pays homage to the area's East Asian immigrants.

The same family lived in this Victorian house for nearly 100 years without altering the building.

New York City's only radical feminist independent bookstore.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

St. John the Baptist's forearm is housed in this remote 11th-century monastery.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

With only one flight in and out a week, the unfenced runway at this small island's airport transforms into a seaside park for locals and visitors.

The field of tiny caves that mark this Chinese cliffside are each their own historic Buddhist temple.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

An animatronic tribute to a legendary half-man, half-fish creature.

Delhi's only female ruler is buried in this neglected, forgotten tomb.

With 3,000 bikes on display, the world's largest bicycle museum includes some famous rarities.

A nearly impregnable 16th-century fort is one of Goa's oldest.

Hundreds of plague victims were buried beneath this small, rural church.

Kuala Lumpur’s historic single-screen cinema, transformed into a labyrinthine bookstore.

How a century-old glass factory in Queens became a concert venue and arts center.