Places AMARA MOON Wants to Go

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

Meet California's largest recorded lodgepole pine: an 11-story-tall, 440-year-old living relic that has survived centuries of disaster to rank among the world's greatest forest giants.

This is Bremen’s oldest historic district, famous for its labyrinth of narrow medieval alleys lined with tiny, colorful 15th-century houses that resemble beads on a rope.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

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

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

Three prestigious academic collections come together to create a world-class natural history museum.

The walkable ruins of an 19th century hotel, destroyed in a horse cremation gone wrong.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Berthed at the Charlestown Navy Yard in Boston, "Old Ironsides" is the oldest commissioned warship still afloat.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

The American Revolution was galvanized into serious action due to the tragic clash with British soldiers that occurred at this location.

One of the most scenic falls in Massachusetts has a history of death and grim legend.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The 340-year-old house that inspired the classic Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.