Places tomod05 Wants to Go

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

Moscow's other, lesser known kremlin is a fairytale-like cultural complex modeled after Old Russia.

This cairn marks the only place where Central European Time, Eastern European Time, and Further-eastern European Time meet.

A large collection of ancient runestones decorates this university courtyard.

A mysterious ruin shrouded in more folklore than fact.

This road winds through the steep coastal cliffside offering spectacular views for those who brave the drive.

This schoolhouse for Black American children is one of the oldest remaining in southeastern Ohio.

Hidden behind West Philadelphia rowhomes is a haven for migratory and local bird species both ordinary and rare.

A treasure trove of fine art is hiding inside this small medieval abbey in Gascony.

Celebrate Earth Day with a menagerie of vibrant, artistic animal costumes.

The second-largest collection of runic calendar staffs in Sweden.

This historic street in Quito is known for its seven stone crosses—and one presidential assassination.

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

Visitors flock to the historic birthplace of radiobalneology for its therapeutic radium treatments.

An enormous effigy of the goddess of compassion hides within the sanctuary.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

A charming beach town in Turkey captures all the colors of the rainbow.

An enormous Buddha peers through a gap in its ruined chamber.

An abandoned desert hamlet swallowed up by sand.

The world's oldest optical museum is an odd collection where the exhibits look at you.

These ornate arches show how the course of the River Thames has changed.