Places Alexis Wood Wants to Go

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

This former charity hospital for elderly clergy houses some of Seville’s most treasured paintings.

Explore the atmospheric ruins of an abandoned convent in the dense forests of Mexico's first national park.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

A Saint Nicholas-themed ghost town in the Mojave desert.

A stealthy Apache hideaway that became the haunting site of a mass grave.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.