Places simonele Wants to Go

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Dodge prohibitionists and slide through the telephone booth in Crif Dogs.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

A 2,000-year-old computer demonstrates remarkable engineering and astronomical precision.

A giant, bloody battle rages throughout the Bolivian Andes each year.

This devil-dancing ceremony now celebrates a miraculous image of the Virgin Mary that appeared to a modern-day Robin Hood in a mineshaft.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

Giant reed houses made in the marshes of Southern Iraq.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.

Mysterious lost empire of the Silk Road.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Keeping Ballard's heritage alive with delicious, lightly battered Alaskan wild cod.

A 50-year old dive bar that has its own yacht club.

Perhaps the world's only gas station inspired by a political scandal.

An ancient holy well said to be used by the patron saint of sailors and travelers, lost in the boggy west of Valentia Island.