Places whtntng Wants to Go

An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.

A colossal floating restaurant built to look like a ancient Chinese imperial palace.

Upside-down trees serve as natural flower pots in this hanging garden of Alaska.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

This tiered waterfall is so pretty it may cause visitors to cry tears of their own.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

What else would you call a playground hidden in Alabama's oldest and largest cemetery?

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

These serpents are considered holy and pampered accordingly.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

The world's only complete colossal squid specimen is on display at the Te Papa Museum.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

"Looks so real, it's scary!"

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

Dioramas and animatronics lead you through the story of Bhagavad-gita, the Indian literary classic.

Sweden's "good old days" painstakingly re-created in a model village.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.