Places benjathom Wants to Go

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

This great stone guardian of the forest is a relic from the land's volatile volcanic past.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

Entering this curiosity shop is like stepping into a mad scientist's lab.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

An ancient Viking village in North America that predates Columbus by 500 years.

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

Home to a full cast of the largest woolly mammoth ever recovered in North America. 

This decommissioned DC-3 now forever points into the oncoming wind.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This red lake 4,000 meters above sea level is home to rare flamingos.

The 3,600-year-old archeological sensation is considered to be the oldest representation of the cosmos.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

This doorless 20th-century elevator doesn't stop or slow down.

Colorado's only true geyser is hidden within the San Juan National Forest.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

Yup, that's a 330-foot yacht passing over the highway.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.