Places Americanaux Wants to Go

A church that bred legends, and served as an inspiration for the Da Vinci Code.

A monument celebrating the idea of reaching inaccessible places.

Bat house that has only ever housed bat for one night; they all flew away and never came back.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Twelve natural mummies are displayed in the crypt of this former monastery school.

Two small chapels housed inside an ancient tree.

Eight rare Corvettes are swallowed up by a sinkhole in Kentucky's National Corvette Museum.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Mysterious Spanish catacombs of unknown origins.

Infamous and now demolished panopticon prison built by its former inhabitants.

Devastated landscape used for hundreds of years by the Romans as their primary mining site.

Myanmar's Mount Olympus atop a 2,500-foot volcanic plug.

A precariously perched golden rock defies gravity and brings pilgrims from across Myanmar.

On the side of a remote mountain, a stone face bearing an inscription of mysterious origin.

Once the gateway to the utopian dream-village of a Civil War embalmer.

An unassuming grey box sitting on San Francisco's Pier 17 is a "sky diary" of the coastal city's temperamental weather.

The oldest burial ground in the city, final resting place of city founders, Ohlone natives and murderers alike.