Places bluceleste87 Wants to Go

This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

A remnant of the 19th-century dream to discourage people from drinking booze by offering them water.

Ancient rock-cut tomb? Definitely. That of a great Median king? Unlikely.

A Kyiv-based repository for all manners of discarded curiosities.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

This gorgeous, colorful 18th-century church is part of one of Bolivia's few surviving Jesuit missions.

The biologist's fossilized headstone was meant to reflect his love of nature. Its, ahem, unusual shape is probably just a coincidence.

This lonely bronze walrus celebrates a character in a Lewis Carroll poem.

A magnificent mansion hides a delightful collection of historic timepieces.

The only museum about the history of dentistry in Canada.

This Manhattan museum houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art and manuscripts outside of Spain.

This small Newfoundland town has declared itself the “Root Cellar Capital of the World.”

A section of the desert with an array of unusual sandstone and limestone formations.

This city park wants you to take your shoes off.

The enormous earthwork sculpture honors the ponies that lived and worked in the old colliery.

An exact replica of Bill Clinton's childhood home stands within a resort in Japan.

A nearly 25-foot concrete sculpture of Sylvette, Picasso's muse.

The first and only planetarium in Sri Lanka.

One of England's oldest stone churches and the birthplace of the "father of English history."

A plaque hidden in the law faculty at Leiden University honors the first scientist to make liquid helium.

Nestled in the heart of a Texas town is a dreamy secret garden dating back to the 1940s.

The world's first hotel built in an abandoned water-filled quarry.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.