Places bleachedrhodopsin Wants to Go

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

Driftwood dinosaurs lurk within trees covered in a rainbow array of avian abodes.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

From this isolated strip of land in Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.

The last remains of the extinct Beothuk people native to the island of Newfoundland.

The tiny airport in remote Newfoundland that inspired a hit musical is also a modernist architectural gem.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

An old California photo stand has been turned into a shrine to the cozy art of crochet.

The "worst battleship ever built" is enjoying a grand second act, submerged 30 feet in the Gulf of Mexico.

This extravagant villa built by a Burmese merchant is part pagoda and part European mansion.

In the mid-19th century, an eight-sided house was the latest fad.

The writing studio of an American adventure author, built in the style of a medieval castle.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

An abandoned Cold War missile radar site.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

No two pieces are exactly the same at Portland's hippo-themed hardware store.

Four metal statues of massive animal penises stand outside the university's Animal Sciences building.

Two Ming Dynasty lion statues guard the entrance to the journalism school.

This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.

A deadly ancient portal to the underworld.

An abused and forgotten metropolis, abandoned for centuries.

These tombs were built into the side of a mountain so that ancient angels could reach the dead.