Places DE Wants to Go

A stray meteor left this picturesque hole in the Australian outback.

Twelve sculptures designed to make their best showing with the coming or going of the sun.

Lonely industrial sculptures in South Australia created by a mechanic turned artist.

This eccentric cave dwelling is bizarre even by the standards of a subterranean town.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

A steampunk airship "floats" above Hamilton Gardens delivering plants and compost.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

This empty Victorian manse on Staten Island is said to be haunted but is actually a real life crime scene.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

At the "Garage Mahal" in Houston, car culture is about more than just driving.

A private collection of massive steel monsters guarding a Texas pipe works.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

Fantastic collection celebrating the final send-off.

The entrance to this sinisterly named tunnel hides behind a Tim Hortons.

Underground vaults of a former brewery beneath Brooklyn's Crown Heights are now used to ripen cheese.

A farm in New Jersey grew a most unusual crop for AT&T's testing purposes.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

This Toronto garden collects stares and tchotchkes in equal measure.

This Hindu temple is an architectural marvel designed and built according to ancient Indian principles.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Willy Wonka would love this weird half-a-home.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.