Places bleachedrhodopsin Wants to Go

This conservatory allows a little bit of the tropics to thrive in the middle of a major Canadian city.

The mountaintop wind turbine boasts a viewing deck — and a fair share of controversy.

House built with over 60,000 glass bottles.

Three buildings constructed of over 25,000 multicolored glass bottles.

Every president in history is immortalized in bronze in downtown Rapid City.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Mind-blowing carvings and fantasy ice scenes grace the largest year-round ice environment in the world.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

A house carved into a rock in the 1940s.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Housing the groundbreaking maps and globes of Gerard Mercator.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

The first evidence of some of the Earth's earliest life was found in this fossilized undersea grotto.

The Avenue of Mausolea is a series of grand palatial tombs.

Earth's rocky history has rarely glittered so brightly as it does in this Spanish museum.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.