Places butterflywings Wants to Go

Concerts, art, offices, and a café in what used to be Berlin's first crematorium.

Someone loved this song enough to carve all of its lyrics onto a tree trunk in a Berlin park.

A series of labyrinths in the Nevada desert inspire meditation and calmness.

Thousands of glyphs created by an unknown culture decorate the rock formations of this canyon.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.

The body of at least one victim of a construction accident was left behind in the collapsed pylon, buried under tons of concrete.

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

A Neolithic burial site erected around 3000 BC.

This German bone house contains the remains of some 20,000 souls.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

This memorial marks the devastating day that Texas City was destroyed in a daisy chain of exploding ships.

This former small town was destroyed not by the motor oil it sprayed the ground with but by the toxic waste that was added.

An ornate abandoned schoolhouse hidden in the woods near a decaying mill town.

After years of being casually peed on by humans, this tree is peeing back.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

Two tall rocks sit at the center of this site, once the home of a large Ancestral Puebloan community.

Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.

One believer transformed a local curiosity into proof of Vikings on the Great Plains.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

Mysterious ancient boulder carved with petroglyphs in the mountains of Western North Carolina.