Places Bill T Wants to Go

A pentagram-covered shrine dedicated to a famed court astrologer known in the west as the Merlin of Japan.

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

This bridge's unique architecture honors nautical heritage and encourages self-awareness.

This orchid sanctuary protects countless varieties of the flower, from the huge to the microscopic.

Exquisite irises bloom every spring in this hillside garden.

In Hong Kong, a fairytale flower tunnel is hidden within the gardens of a public housing complex.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Alongside its 16th- and 17th-century architecture and interiors, this mansion houses an Ancient Roman ring that some believe may have inspired J.R.R. Tolkien.

Concrete igloos standing across from what remains of the Michigan Central train depot.

17th century mosque for Shah Abbas' harem.

A sobering museum dedicated to landmines and the personnel working to remove them from Afghanistan.

The final resting place of the Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico.

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.

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

In the Arabian Desert, a surreal rock formation stands cut clean in half.

This precariously perched fortress was once ruled by a crow-worshipping baron.

The hermits of Karoulia protect their asocial lifestyles by living on the vertical face of a treacherous precipice.

Canada’s longest cave system is home to creatures found nowhere else on the planet, as well as rare cave pearls.