Places VRLNDR Wants to Go

According to local folklore, a demon left his handprints on these boulders, which became the prefecture’s namesake.

A museum about rituals, ghosts, and demons from around Asia, set in the middle of the peaceful Jiufen.

A hidden museum focusing on the sexual aspects of anthropology.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.

Walls of VHS tapes adorn this Golden Gai B horror movie themed bar.

Visit Finnish architect Matti Suuronen's first UFO-shaped home.

A disciple of Frank Lloyd Wright built an experimental, partially underground home in the desert.

Nothing to see here.

In this state repository of folk art, perhaps no piece is more representative than this brutal work featuring the town’s distinctive black clay pottery.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

A saloon and inn that served the Wild West's most iconic figures—and is still haunted by some of them today.

This popular pilgrimage site offers a hole filled with holy healing dirt.

Setting this massive marionette aflame rids Santa Fe of doom and gloom for another year.

This southwest-styled home in Santa Fe claims to be the oldest house in America thanks to an ancient bit of foundation.

A famous flea market artist's studio that's full of odds and ends.

Three witches are said to be buried beneath these unmarked concrete graves.

Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A unique configuration of blown glass can be found inside this hotel lobby.

In paradise, feral pigs have claimed an island all to themselves.

They squeal, they nosh, they look like predators.

At this Arctic outpost, get to know members of the indigenous Sámi community and meet their herds.

One of the deepest indoor swimming pools in the world.