Places timbuktuk Wants to Go

The modest childhood home where the baseball legend and Yankees star learned to hit from both sides of the plate.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

This lovely little bridge hidden in a Switzerland gorge is essentially a fairytale.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

This tangled English forest looks like something right out of a fairytale.

An enigmatic natural rock formation with a manmade passage cut through the center.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A remote hill on a stretch of country road where the laws of physics are defied... or so it seems.

This singular Irish dolmen is more Frank Lloyd Wright than upright stonehenge.

On top of Gibbet Hill lie the ruins of a lavish turn-of-the-century estate that never quite came to be.

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

The South African dialect's complex history is immortalized in stone, in one of the world's only monuments dedicated to a language.

This vast kitty-themed collection illustrates the history of human-cat interaction.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Despite being burnt down multiple times, the ruins of this South Carolina church are still standing.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.