Places semken Wants to Go

In the mountains of West Virginia is this perfectly preserved Art Deco train station.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Constructed by forced laborers, this submarine pen is now a museum and war memorial.

Harry Potter’s Hogsmeade Station is also a charming blast from the past situated in North Yorkshire.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

The half-mile long structure is so impressive, it even shows up on satellite images.

A concrete mushroom that divided Stockholm residents for nearly a century.

This Michelin-starred restaurant sheds light on a rare period of cultural and culinary tolerance in Cordoba’s past.

Tokyo’s only Ainu restaurant serves Indigenous food from northern Japan.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

During World War II, the Nazis repurposed this beer cellar to store stolen artwork.

Nestled on the banks of a river in Nuremberg is a small museum that was once home of the city's official executioner.

This strange sculpture depicts a giant nightmare hare crushing a man to death beneath its colossal bulk.

An ice field known for harboring an infamous Martian meteorite turned out to contain the oldest air on Earth.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

A busy island at the center of the world that doesn’t actually exist.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

A long and winding trail through history led to the current iteration of this mountaintop tower.

The narrow mountain road that carves a path between Florence and Victor is tied to ghost towns and ghost stories.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.