Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Perhaps the biggest draw to this mosque is its remote location and lack of tourists.

Take a walk through the history of strength sports—from the early Olympic Games to modern day.

This institution collects the history of burlesque dancing with a titillating collection of ephemera and pasties.

An ancient burial site that lights up with the winter solstice.

A storied British pub where customers leave messages in the walls.

The world's oldest Jewish library was founded by Sephardic Jews in 17th century Amsterdam.

Mysterious meeting place for UFO hunters near Area 51.

Many believe these images represent interstellar lifeforms.

An eatery for UFO seekers on the Extraterrestrial Highway.

This sign designates the road that leads to the infamous Area 51.

Filled with goldfish swimming in a shallow pool of sea water, this ancient crypt is more wishing well than burial site.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

Nobody knows what this saucer-like ancient Egyptian object was for.

A beloved carnival gets a modern makeover in Los Angeles.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

A new kind of theme park for adults off the Las Vegas Strip.

Kokera sushi may be the rarest sushi you have never heard of. 

The skeletal frame of a decommissioned gas-pumping station offers breathtaking views of greater Berlin.

Amid the bustle of the Pike Place Market is a poem by famed Japanese poet Narihira.

Reaching Japan’s “most dangerous shrine” means climbing a vertical cliff.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

Mausoleum and Holy Seat of Antiochus I of Commagene.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

Although it appears ancient and mysterious, the quirky folly was actually built 200 years ago by an eccentric estate owner.