Places Calmmseas Wants to Go

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

The Magical World of George Phar Legler.

A tropical paradise once home to space exploration and military installations.

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

An ancient Roman temple hidden in the basement of Römerpassage, a modern shopping mall.

Walk through a well-preserved World War II Nazi prison and transit camp.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

Madrid's romantically ornate crystal palace has been offering shelter to plants and art for over a century.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This mosaic dedicated to John Lennon was tended for years by a Beatles super-fan.

For over 30 years the walls of this Harlem schoolyard have been a gallery of street art by "Kings and better."

"Dark Sky Park" is heaven on Earth for astronomers, one of the rare U.S. locations with no artificial light pollution.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

This Hungarian castle was built out of cardboard and wood until it proved so popular that it got upgraded to stone.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.