Places bertshetler Wants to Go

A familiar otherworldly creature guards this 12th-century Scottish abbey.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A bike being "eaten" by a tree is the real Vashon legend behind popular children's book, "Red Ranger Came Calling."

This tiny movie theater was the last one in the U.S. constructed in the Nuevo Deco architectural style.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

Don't be fooled by this fake medieval facade even if it is almost 300 years old.

The unusual clock on this 18th-century market building has an extra minute hand for "Bristol time."

A 142-foot-tall Q-tip on Bristol's skyline.

There's a labyrinth of manmade tunnels stretching for over an acre beneath Bristol.

England's steepest street has such a drastic incline that locals tie their parked cars to lampposts when it gets icy.

The Bristol Camera Obscura housed in an ancient windmill.

Banksy's image of a naked man dangling from the window of a sex health clinic.

The abandoned funicular tunnel was a secret base for the BBC during World War II.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

This remote eatery and museum is preserved as a time capsule of a small Icelandic fishing town.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

Two volcanic lakes in an enormous crater formed in a prehistoric eruption.

Iceland's largest lagoon is home to stunning multi-colored icebergs.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

This kaleidoscopic mural shows Bob Dylan throughout his transition from young troubadour to Nobel laureate.

One of two giant blue cockerel statues erected with an intentional double meaning.