Places simonele Wants to Go

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

This is where all crows in the surrounding region come to roost from the entire Lower Mainland of Vancouver.

The Pamir Highway between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan takes a mere hour driving through a stretch of No Man’s Land.

Mysterious prehistoric grooves carved into the Maltese rock, purpose unknown

A well-preserved Neolithic burial mound in the Cotswold hills

It's a breathing museum, where you get to breathe along with stunning immersive textile light art.

Islands of granite rise above the rainforest canopy to form unique microbiomes in a remote French territory.

A taste of the 15th century in the bustling heart of the modern Shinjuku City.

A local workshop makes Japanese-style paper out of everything from papyrus to pineapple leaves.

It's been called “Detroit’s largest art object.”

Where hand-pressed burgers meet low-flying planes — a 1950s drive-in shack at the end of an active runway in the Columbia River Gorge, with Mount Hood on one side and Mount Adams on the other.

You can take the metro between these two stations, or you can walk the underground bookstore-lined passageway that connects them

A rare example of one of the world's first printed books

Most likely the largest and best-preserved dolmen in the Basque Country

A replica of the Neolithic wooden plankway once used to cross England's marshes

The remains of a royal fish pond are now a brackish-water wildlife sanctuary

A small fishing village hidden inside a rocky cave overlooking the sea

Where a plague-quarantined village left vinegar-soaked coins for supplies

6th century Byzantine mosaics preserved on a hill overlooking Lake Ohrid.

Guatemalan womanizer, venerated during Holy Week.

These roaring primates were considered a divine creature in the cosmology of the Maya.

Monkeys inhabit the lush forest surrounding ancient Mayan ruins once considered sacred.

Central America's deepest lake is actually a volcanic caldera, surrounded by three volcanoes.

Experiencing Guatemala's sensory-exploding church is a blunt reminder of European influence.