Places bluestorm1738 Wants to Go

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

Outside the Missouri Quilt Museum, this large spool has more than one million yards of thread—and counting.

This music school doubles as a store for unique, hand-crafted, and hard-to-find instruments.

A library of poems cascade off the branches of this unsuspecting tree.

In the hometown of the Catholic saint and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a memorial dedicated to her legacy.

The world's first motorway was used as a racetrack until the late 1990s.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

In British Columbia, a unique microclimate has allowed these trees to live much longer than they usually would.

The equator passes through this tiny island in the eastern Atlantic.

At this local mall, visitors are ushered through a 1940s jail exhibit.

This effigy was crafted to annoy a neighbor after a civil dispute over a foul smell.

Along the edge of this fountain are 365 smaller fountains that represent the days of the year.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

A glimpse into early 19th-century education.

A stone burial chamber that was also the site of religious rituals.

You can find America's highest suspension footbridge at Grandfather Mountain in North Carolina.

The longest of the four remaining covered bridges in Missouri.

A 16th-century mosque rebuilt after wartime devastation.

An abandoned textile mill that is now home to art and concerts.

A Jurassic artscape composed of transmission casings and other mechanical parts.

Is this 200-meter-wide nature reserve the smallest desert in the world?

After sitting unused for decades, this abandoned communist infrastructure became a wildlife utopia.

How did the 110-ton limestone statue cross the road?

One of the camera company's former manufacturing buildings is now a museum dedicated to its history.