Places semken Wants to Go

A cave covered with bizarre stalactites of cloth.

The Goose Girl of Göttingen, Germany might well be the most kissed girl in the world.

Norway's chilly all ice-instrument festival.

Ain't no party like a ghost town party.

During this Shetland Islands celebration, hundreds of torch-carrying "guizers" lead a procession to burn a viking longboat.

Host to the annual Festival of the Snakes.

A rare festival blending religion, blacksmiths, vagina dentata, sex workers, and the straight-up facts of life.

Leave it to Key West to drop a real-live drag queen instead of a ball to mark the arrival of the New Year.

A lively annual event in which thousands of people race to push coffins heavy with bodies up a hill.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

After a long, dark winter in the upper latitudes, Yellowknife knows how to let it all out in unparalleled style.

The tiny Belgian town's ancient version of Mardi Gras involves eerie wax masks, sticks for warding off evil, and ostrich plume hats.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

An annual festival celebrating Colorado's most famous frozen corpse.

A derelict hunting lodge that was once the site of aristocratic debauchery.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

The most unusual block in Brasília.

Planned as the world’s first zero-carbon city, it had lofty ideals—but is only 5 percent completed and aiming for 50 percent carbon-neutral.

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.

The soaring gondola lines form the longest aerial cable car system in the world.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.