Places cleanplate Wants to Go

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

Don't blink or you'll miss it.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

An enormous illuminated figure dances on the Las Vegas strip.

This ancient trail has claimed the lives of over 2,000 people.

An Ethiopian "Jerusalem" featuring a church hewn out of a single rock.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

Before the electric telegraph, a chain of stone towers carried messages across France.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Tubing through a cave lit with glowworms is a magical underground experience.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The "World's Largest Underground Business Complex," a 55,000,000-square-foot city underneath Missouri.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.