Places bertshetler Wants to Go

This volcano rises like a giant anthill from the plains below, with a road spiraling up to the rim.

The sophisticated hydraulic system of the Nazca civilization.

This otherworldly church spire reaches up toward the heavens.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

A spiral staircase twists to the top of this unusual Czech lookout tower.

This enormous spiral sculpture looks strangely out of place on the edge of a housing development.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

Blue-green pools and smooth stones comprise one of Spain’s most idyllic hidden wonders.

An unusual round church in London with a Templar past.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A small town celebrates its cash crop with a giant highway sculpture.

This 7,000-year-old megalithic wonder covered by a Franco-era reservoir emerges in times of drought.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.

Hidden in one of New York's oldest subway stations is the final remnant of the site of the bizarre Shakespeare Riots.

This unusual subway stop was originally a real estate office.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

An important pilgrimage site for pagans and early Christians, named for a Celtic goddess-turned-saint.