Places Cara Giaimo Wants to Go

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

The largest wooden building in the world now houses a fascinating collection of aircraft.

Formerly a lovely white sand beach this Hawaiian stretch is now a trap for countless tons of trash.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

A pixel art killer whale is frozen mid-leap in this Vancouver square.

The Natural History Museum that time forgot.

A countryside Romanian cemetery filled with colorful crosses bearing lyrical, ironic, or satirical rhymes.

A collection of collections ranging from dentistry to minerals.

A lovingly curated curio shop in which the taxidermy wear newspaper party hats, and peanut shells are spread across every surface.

Fascinating collection of Khoisan rock engravings, still situated in their original setting.

Many generations ago, it was said that one could find celestial splendor in a lush meadow not far from this very marker according to the lore of the fictional world Kcymaerxthaere.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

The original goat tower, the one that started it all.

Life and death are on parade at the most reliably perilous site of “the Great Migration.”