Places exvine Wants to Go

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

An Italian hillside ghost town.

Sitting on an Italian hilltop is this surreal fortress built by the mad inventor of electrohomeopathy.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

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

Renaissance villa and gardens complete with a tormented colossus.

A Perpetually Under construction Park.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

Ever wanted to can Spam?

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

The famed architect designed this Minnesota gas station of the future with a lookout tower.

Half of a waterfall goes into the river while the other half seems to disappear.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

The magic's in the hole!

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.