Places cmstoelb Wants to Go

A cheeky name for an observatory visitor's center.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

The museum is housed inside the historic 1863 Carson City Mint.

The remains of the medieval wall that once surrounded Paris with ties to the construction of the Louvre.

The Peruvian Andes are a center of hummingbird diversity, and this garden offers an opportunity to see more than 30 species of hummingbirds.

A 30-foot-tall cement chair pays tribute to a historic design and a local industry.

A space-grade telescope mirror lies discarded in the shrubs.

A set of beech hedges planted in the 19th century forms a tunnel that takes on a different appearance in every season.

The rock carving that became an internet meme.

A scene of a heinous act during a troubled period of Scottish history.

Small caves once used as a hiding place for some of those accused during the Salem Witch Trials.

For a few short weeks in spring, this hiking path becomes a daffodil paradise.

A dam that moonlights as a gigantic, brutalist waterslide.

A giant chameleon, with a fascinating purpose.

This inverted metropolis model is the artist's "revenge" for not being allowed to have a doll house as a kid.

Carved into living stone, a beloved roadside chapel peacefully welcomes the faithful and curious alike.

The seaside ruins of an ancient salt production facility.

Hundreds of pelicans call this island no larger than a car their home during the summer months.

This ambitious restaurant celebrates the culinary traditions of the Ozarks before 1870.

A small World War II museum housed in what was once the largest navigation school in the United States.

Palace, temple, and pyramid ruins mark the ancient Mesoamerican capital of Totonacapan.

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

A feat of railway engineering required to bypass a muddy quagmire.