Places aclpurcell Wants to Go

Right angles in the forests of Panama.

In a pedestrian tunnel on North Carolina State’s campus resides an expressive and artistic free-for-all.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Don't be surprised if you see a long-necked dinosaur peeking out from among the trees in Northgate Park.

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

An homage to the humble watering can.

This futuristic bridge is one of the longest self-anchored pedestrian bridges in the world.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

An optical illusion found amid a logged redwood forest.

A naturally beautiful, seemingly bottomless deep blue spring.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

A beautiful, dense forest in the shadow of Mount Fuji, with a tragic reputation.

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

A short hike into the mountainside forest reveals a decaying 1890s town.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Nature’s skyscraper launches out of the terrain with attitude.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

A fleet of automotive automatons sleep in this otherwise unremarkable urban garage.