Places Blake Olmstead Wants to Go

A trove of century-old litho stones from the Puck Building's printing days were discovered behind a cellar wall, and are now hanging in the store.

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

Astronomical observatory above Lake Titicaca.

A white oak with property rights.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

The Uros people live on floating reed islands in lake Titicaca.

These ruined Incan mausoleum towers still bear carvings of sacred animals on their blocks.

This space-age looking obelisk rises over a city in the rainforest, meant to resemble the local castaña tree.

This small oxbow lake has rare giant river otters and some Seussian-sounding birds.

The world's largest clay lick, where parrots gather to snack.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

A 70-foot-deep ice cave formed by lava from Mt. Fuji on the edge of Japan's "Suicide Forest." 

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

Fonts are born and bred here at the oldest letterpress type foundry in the United States.

A century-old network of freight tunnels underneath the city's historic business district.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

A set of ancient drawings in the desert of Peru that are so massive, many of them can only be fully seen from the sky.

Sleep in a glass pod dangling off a cliff.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.