Places emocosenza Wants to Go

In a city filled with Frank Gehry buildings, one stands out as one of the architect's weirder works.

The ruins of this gorgeous clifftop castle look like something from a fantasy novel.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

This tipsy office building in downtown Prague was originally called “Fred and Ginger.”

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

This 1967 experiment in modular architecture was designed to be a new model for urban living.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The location along the shores of the Great Salt Lake of what was once called, "The Coney Island of the West", now sits barren due to arson and time.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The world's largest mountain carving could fit all of Mount Rushmore inside it many times over.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

This cheese shop also houses a museum devoted to Dutch dairy.

The Grand Canyon of Texas.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Bad farming practices caused this unnatural natural wonder.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

Part bookstore, part café, and part forest.

A medieval castle in the middle of rural Texas.