Places alessandralee Wants to Go

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

This lookout tower built in the 1930s is now an in-demand cabin with what might be the best view of the Seneca State Forest.

Near-constant high winds deform the trees on Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia.

Spectacular mineral formations fill these caves, which have been used for everything from smoking meat to stashing illicit liquor.

This former fire tower found new life as a communications hub complete with a scenic overlook.

The brainchild of Eleanor Roosevelt, her "Little Village" was a collectivist dream.

This red-eyed chrome beast pays homage to the popular modern myth of West Virginia's insectoid monster.

These slanted cubic abodes are a creative if odd solution to a zoning pickle.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

The first (but not only) upside-down house in Germany.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

The rustic think-space of famed naturalist John Burroughs stands exactly as he left it.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

The scene of the United Kingdom's most famous UFO incident, dubbed the "British Roswell."

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

The most decorated dog of World War I is preserved in the Smithsonian.

A small town garden is dedicated to a psychic dog with the most soulful eyes.

People from around the world visit the shrine of Japan’s legendarily loyal dog.

The oldest café in Montevideo preserves its history as the city's bohemian hub.

Famed for its pie, this eatery has a hidden tunnel that allowed Catholics to secretly walk to church during the Reformation.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.