Places aprildg Wants to Go

This super steep hike ascends 2,000 feet in less than a mile.

The largest dinosaur trackway in North America is tucked away among this canyon's ghosts and archaeological gems.

For just a few hours each morning, this market serves specialties from the city's shrinking Chinese-Indian community.

Lyon's "Wall of the Silk Weavers" is one of the largest murals in Europe.

A colorful piece of contemporary art cheerfully clashes with Lyon's historical architecture.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

For hundreds of years, automatons moving to metallic music have been marking the passage of time.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Arrr! The most authentic collection of pirate artifacts in the world... matey.

This unusual building straddles two countries.

This Canadian road's nickname stuck so hard the city had to keep it.

This former mining hub holds a surprising abundance of undisturbed relics from the Old West.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

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

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The name of this famed hospital was once a byword for the horrors of medical and psychiatric care.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This sculpture forces visitors to confront their relationship with space.

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

Park filled with machinery that drove the southern agriculture and oil industries forward.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

Flowers have mysteriously appeared on her effigy every day for the last 150 years.