Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

The world's only museum devoted to the wonders of fluorescence.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

A theme park that suffered massive flooding during Katrina was abandoned, and now proves irresistible to trespassing explorers.

This beautiful building in the heart of Manhattan's Financial District was empty for decades.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

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

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.