Places benharkins Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

The world's longest bridge fountain has hundreds of nozzles that create a beautiful, illuminated spectacle.

Summer in Scotland begins with a spectacularly wild and colorful event rooted in ancient pagan traditions.

Poetic, metallic giraffes adorn a square off an Edinburgh thoroughfare.

This modern antique shop is a museum for 1980's Saturday morning cartoon culture.

A crumbling cliffside ruin hidden in the woods.

A cool dive bar, off the beaten track.

Nearly three tons of weapons from the Vietnam War still remain in this small, hidden museum.

There is nothing like a religious festival celebrated with blow-up sledgehammers.

The pit stop from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" now serves beef and pork barbecue, not people.

The ruins of this ancient fortification wall sit in the middle of a quiet, residential intersection.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

At the site of a graffiti artist's murder, fellow artists gather to pay homage.

A rare water-powered funicular, it uses a huge tank of water and gravity to do its work.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

An unusual and powerful memorial in which earthquake victims are remembered by empty white chairs.

New Zealand's epic shrine to all things puzzling.