Paris, France
The Room of Endangered and Extinct Species
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Paris, France
A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.
Garden Grove, California
Megachurch turned Catholic church comprised of 10,000 glass panes.
Australia
This dramatic sea spire is home to the world's rarest insect and is part of the lost continent of Zealandia.
Andros I, Bahamas
Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.
Philippines
An island in the middle of a lake, in the middle of a volcano, in the middle of a bigger lake, in the middle of a bigger island, in an archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.
Koror, Palau
An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.
Bouvet Island
This uninhabited volcanic island is the most remote in the world.
Goldfield, Nevada
Graffiti, cars, and religion combine to create this jungle of scrap in the Nevada desert.
Osoyoos, British Columbia
A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.
Wendover, Utah
Come for the speed, leave in love with the desert.
Silver City, Nevada
An abandoned cyanide mill is now a haunting magnet for graffiti and illegal parties.
Las Vegas, Nevada
Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.
Lee Vining, California
Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.
Portland, Oregon
These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.
Goldendale, Washington
A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.
Stevenson, Washington
An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.
Goldendale, Washington
A fine, large-aperture telescope available for public use.
Ariel, Washington
An annual celebration of the infamous, unsolved skyjacking.
Hope, British Columbia
Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
Mission, British Columbia
Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Friday Harbor, Washington
This family mausoleum is steeped in symbolism and looks more like a fantasy location than a grave.
Eastsound, Washington
One artist's yard is full of shining, whirling kinetic sculptures that look like pure steel psychedelia.