Places Auros Harman Wants to Go

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

A glowing underwater cliff attracts marine life and divers in equal measure.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

This supermarket offers shoppers a window into the past alongside their groceries.

This 1800s former railway tunnel is now part of a heritage walking trail.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Let these towering termite-building structures tell you where to go.

A futuristic-looking beach house built for the owner of a snack food brand.

An award-winning children’s garden enchants visitors at the intersection of natural beauty and fairy tales.

A series of magical limestone formations along the coastline of the country island of Antigua.

This metal sculpture is a tribute to the Canadian Pacific Railway, which had a station in the village that has now been converted into a library.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

This sacred site lives up to its name with its majestic, color-splashed sandstone formations.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

A Neolithic celestial calendar standing in a nondescript wheat field.

Called the "Armenian Stonehenge," this ring of menhirs pierced with holes may be a prehistoric astronomical observatory.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.

The entrance to this Frankfurt subway station looks like an old tram car crashed into the concrete sidewalk.