Places bradjiles Wants to Go

255 feet of suds, scrubbers, and blow dryers.

This giant disembodied horse head seems to balance impossibly on its nose.

A shining sculpture made of 3,115 lights, the number of visible stars in the Northern Hemisphere.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

A lawn full of retired spacecraft on display at one of NASA's first research labs.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

Seattle's super-sized cowboy apparel once belonged to a themed gas station that wrangled in herds of tourists.

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Frank Lloyd Wright died a year before construction on his largest public project even began.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Mirrored floors and arched shelves create the illusion of an infinite tunnel of books.

This forgotten boat elevator was an engineering marvel in its heyday.

A deserted hodgepodge of experimental structures designed by nearby university students.

The remarkably well-preserved final resting place of a powerful ancient Thracian king.

Atlanta's strange assortment of concrete pillars inspires reflection in some, confusion in others.

This banal Parisian entranceway is not what it seems.

This quiet park's strange sedimentary spires were named after Kodak's color film.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

The majority of the museum's large collection is held in a storage space open to the public a few times a year.

A metal ring in the middle of the road marks the exact spot where the Soviet satellite crash-landed in 1962.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

The spaceship-like theater, which is still in use, was one of the most popular exhibits at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

Take a sea tractor to the Art Deco hotel on the island that inspired Agatha Christie.