Places bleachedrhodopsin Wants to Go

Homemade outdoor church and sculpture garden decorated with glass shards.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

Five sultans and their families rest in eternal splendor, teeming with overlooked beauty and drama.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

This protected reserve is home to a rare and beautiful species of flower.

A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This fantastical and eclectic English garden takes its inspiration from Egypt, China, the occult and more.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

These warring psychedelic crags commemorate an unsuccessful military operation.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The birthplace of the builder of the Statue of Liberty is now a museum dedicated to his work.

One devoted couple has donated multiple recreations of Michelangelo's sculptures to this South Dakota town.

A colossal sculptural lion built by the same man who designed the Statue of Liberty.

A series of eerie metal stick figures are spread out over four square miles on the bed of a huge salt lake in the Australian Outback.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

This disappearing geyser has been attributed to witchcraft, but really it's all about rainfall.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The purported world's shortest international bridge connects a homeowner in Canada to his backyard in New York.

This log cabin gallery is one man's gnarly, hand-carved tribute to his favorite trees.

The legendary luxury train passage is commemorated with a charming museum inside its former eastern terminus.