Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in North America is built of concrete designed to last 1,000 years.

From failed port town to Civil War fort, the ruins of this former defense saw their finest day in the television age.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

Seaside ruins of a settlement that date back to the first century B.C.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

Steep canyon walls hide a forested oasis in the West Texas desert.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This trio of stone spires claims to be the only preserved medieval execution site in Europe.

An accidental trick of light casts the perfect shadow of a pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago against the cathedral wall.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

A former zoo turned public park, where visitors can hang out in the old animal cages.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

One man and his wife have turned a barren Korean island into a fantastical botanical wonderland.

In its day this historic fort held 100 cannons pointed in almost every direction to protect New York.

Thanks to modern navigational tools we now know that the true prime meridian runs through a park next door.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

Fortified homes of highland warriors that are still in use today.

When the big city meets the edge of the frontier, log skyscrapers are born.

This beautiful Japanese garden is a memorial to the samurai who literally wrote the book on business as martial art.