Places chickenyday Wants to Go

These biodiverse university gardens form a green oasis amid the urban chaos of Mexico City.

Shop for superb tortillas at this homage to the ancient art of nixtamalization.

A shrine in the middle of this pond represents a Mesoamerican creation myth.

These floating gardens show what Mexico City used to look during the Aztec Empire.

This bakery forgoes industrial wheat in favor of locally harvested grains.

60 feet of towering steel balances gracefully.

Three vintage horses survived a 1976 inferno and found a home on a sister carousel.

What began with a single, 357-pound chunk of the Canyon Diablo meteorite grew to be an impressive collection. 

A carousel trades in its classic horses and calliope for endangered species, native flora and fauna, and a modern soundtrack.

An increasingly eccentric apartment building, topped with winged beasties.

The L.A. Zoo has a secret garden of rare bootleg cycads, a palm specimen dating back 280 million years.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Sister store to the Echo Park Time Travel Store.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

Ride a mechanical corn dog at the alleged birthplace of America's favorite deep-fried wiener.

In eastern Oregon, two mineral hot springs sit along the Malheur River in a fairly desolate area where peace and quiet are abound.

This museum and curiosity shop provides a glimpse into an often-overlooked past to show guests that there is beauty and wonder in the macabre.

These natural hot springs form four-tiered soaking pools with temperatures ranging from 85 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit.

A remote trail traverses the little-known Gearhart Mountains of southern Oregon.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.

An attractive free-plunge waterfall outside Bend in the Deschutes National Forest.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.