Places xxrye Wants to Go

Possibly the smallest church in the world floats in the middle of a pond.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

A popular place to pick up prehistoric coral fossils from the time when Michigan was an ocean.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

The relics of one of Jesus' 12 apostles are enshrined in this Italian Basilica.

At Monet's beloved home you can still see the Japanese bridge, waterlilies, and weeping willows that were the subjects of some of his most iconic paintings.

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

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

Landbridge created by the South Korean version of Moses.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Final resting place of one of the classic authors of horror literature.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

The Hanshin Expressway goes right through its 5th, 6th, and 7th floors.

One of the first hotel rooms in a pod.

This little blue house pokes out over the campus of UC San Diego, seven stories high.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The pop art icon's gravesite is broadcast 24 hours a day on his museum's website.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The popularity of Sherlock Holmes led to the creation of his fictional address, turning the orderly London street numbers askew.