Places dennishudson Wants to Go

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

A disarmed 40-foot nuclear missile on display outside a North Carolina church.

A stellar example of Art & Crafts architecture, and a movie set to boot.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

The sci-fi villain is a little-known inhabitant of the U.S. capital's largest cathedral.

Santa Monica is one of the world's longest, most beautiful, and least developed beaches: just white sand for miles, a single beach shack, and the concrete shell of an abandoned resort that never got past its foundations.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

The forest has reclaimed nearly everything—streets included—from this failed Pennsylvania "City of Heaven" that was once deeded directly to God.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

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

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

Bioluminescence in the reefs of the Maldives causes the sea to glow like a starry night sky.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.