Places brinkmonkey Wants to Go

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

Hike the ruins of a zoo that was shut down by an unsolved murder.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

A watchhouse constructed from tombstones, to make way for a burial pit, for the victims succumbing to a deadly disease.

Although called a funicular by both its owner and the locals this historic railroad is actually a rack and pinion system.

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.

A uniquely lettered street sign marks the corner where the iconic word game was invented.

A beautiful Kentish country intersection hosts a tasty little photo spot.

A pair of oily black spiders lurk inside South Korea's largest airport.

An abandoned incline railway site is now a green space with six acres of trails connecting hilltop neighborhoods.

Plans for this peninsula included houses, the United Nations Headquarters, and a nuclear power plant. When none of them worked out, it became an expansive park.

Built thousands of years ago, this wall is still part of the urban layout of this village.

A unique form of erosion created an uncanny landscape of boulders perched atop slender columns of clay.

Exchange a book at the entrance of this medieval Lovere alley.

An unusual structure of stone and glass honoring one of Japan’s most eminent Christian leaders who founded the non-church movement.

An improbable waterfall springs from an orange-white cliff face, tumbling into the headwaters of the Virgin River above Zion National Park.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

An old spa town in the mountains of Romania where, according to legend, the great hero Hercules once bathed.

Like your grandma's attic—if your grandma were a little weirder, extremely well-traveled, and had a great eye for art.

Twisted trees shaped by coastal winds make this woodland look like something from a spooky story.

Despite a recent paint job, the factory still sits empty.

A Google software engineer's Easter egg led to what may be the world's most unusual saved screenshot.