Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

An unassuming secret door once led to a legendary watering hole.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

The decaying ruins of a failed mining company’s water diversion project cling to the side of a desert canyon.

In the middle of a suburban Denver neighborhood is a cave that once provided solace for a prominent Ute chief and his family.

A river runs through this remote valley in a very unexpected way.

A unique arch graces the Dolores River Canyon near the Hanging Flume.

Two creeks flow out of either end of this canyon in opposite directions.

A remote sandstone plateau named for a legendary cattle rustler.

Each year, Germany's "City of Dragons" slays the world's largest walking robot.

A moai decorated with the depiction of a European ship.

A derelict hunting lodge that was once the site of aristocratic debauchery.

A gallery displaying the psychedelic-fueled art of the indigenous Huichol people.

Western Australia’s heavenly staircase is not for the faint of heart.

Though its branches are painted bright colors by generations of locals, the tree is said to be a haunted portal to hell.

An eerie, protected forest of old-growth oak trees, many of which are now dead.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

The 19th-century ruins hide deep in an overgrown forest.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Santa Monica is one of the world's longest, most beautiful, and least developed beaches: just white sand for miles, a single beach shack, and the concrete shell of an abandoned resort that never got past its foundations.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

An architectural anomaly that preserves the chilling history of medieval ascetics who chose to be buried alive.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

The so-called "Statue of Liberty of Los Angeles" is on a one mutant mission to keep L.A. weird.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.