Places Edited by breaingram

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

The remains of a World War II-era Japanese American internment camp dot a windswept Colorado hill.

An iconic 1960s theater with a Buckminster Fuller-style geodesic dome.

This colonial cabin is the oldest building in High Point, built by one of the first settlers in the area.

Shop for books in the New Orleans house where William Faulkner once lived.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

A decaying building marks the site associated with Emmett Till's brutal 1955 murder, which helped sparking the civil rights movement.

An underexplored, 130-foot tropical waterfall that you will have all to yourself.

The arch that celebrated the completion of the Lincoln and Victory highways.

This huge green space packed with activities will make you forget you're in the middle of the Ecuadorian capital.

Within the former ghost town of Cisco is a carefully restored tiny town with one resident and its own art residency.

A cemetery full of touching tombstones from a community of railroad workers, uranium miners, and Cold War missile launchers.

Few things look more out of place than the electric blue ponds in the reddish-brown desert of Utah.

This historic street in Quito is known for its seven stone crosses—and one presidential assassination.

The fifth-longest natural arch in the world, and the longest outside China.

Built on the remains of one the Incas’ most important gathering spots, this square keeps the spirit of a fallen empire alive.

A short volcanic hill in Quito doubles as a stellar observation point of an iconic statue.

It took 160 years to complete the most ornate church in Ecuador.

The oldest continuously-operating Chinese restaurant in the United States has been in business since 1911.

This sculpture meant to honor the bravery of the Indigenous Mapuche people of Chile proved controversial.

This ghost town houses the remains of Alabama's old state capital.

Hidden within a spa in a Texas strip mall is a restaurant specializing in Eastern European foods.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.