Places Blake Olmstead Wants to Go

Dozens of feral felines rule a segment of Hollywood's only graveyard.

The largest open-air contemporary art center in South America is a unique experience in the Atlantic Forest.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This sun-scorched lakebed contains samples of half the natural elements known to humankind.

The control tower at the historic weapons range is now available as a highly unusual vacation rental.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

The original "capsule building" is a masterpiece of Metabolist architecture.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

The abandoned ruins of America's first private zoo are open for exploration in the Catskills.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

Bacteria and algae give the salty water its bubblegum hue.

The collection of signage remembers the midcentury pushback against the new neon light.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A beautiful but toxic fountain of mercury.

Wedged between two buildings at the Great Ormond Street Hospital is this secret music installation.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

Garden dedicated to native carnivorous plants and site of huge flytrap heist.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

The largest free-standing aquarium in the world resides in a hotel lobby in Berlin.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

The young Black revolutionary was killed before getting to see a non-segregated pool in his hometown.