Places alessandralee Wants to Go

A circle of giant painted vases in the former pottery capital of the United States.

Mysterious tombstones thought to be remnants of Atlantis.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This Bronze Age man spent millennia buried in a mine, giving his bones an eerie hue.

A Bronze Age stone ship said to be the grave of the mythical founder of Gotland.

Two 2,500-year-old Phoenician boats found on the coast of Spain, giving incredible insight into the ancient maritime traders.

This lost city belongs to one of the earliest civilizations in the world.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

Celebrated as a center of civilization, the remains of the ancient city have been nearly destroyed by greed, egoism, and war.

A Bronze age settlement on the Greek island of Santorini might have been the inspiration for Plato's Atlantis.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

To honor his gardening wife, this yard artist turns bowling balls into playful, colorful sculptures.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

Faces carved into the cliffs create an otherworldly walking trail.

This 1,500-acre development hopes to be the Central Park of the South.

A diverse, expansive nature preserve in northeastern Kansas.

The semi-reclaimed ruins of this canal were once part of an ambitious plan to reroute the mighty potomac.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

A toweringly silly piece of modern art has been delighting locals since the 1980s.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.