Places Fortanono Wants to Go

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

A modern zoetrope on the New York City subway.

A black cottonwood gets a second life as a home for books.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

Thousands of biblical and pagan images are carved into this small 12th-century church.

This small museum concentrates on the juicy history of orange production in Florida.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

Pilgrims each carried a brick to the top of Mount Monserrate to help build this historic sanctuary in Colombia.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

The largest permanent Monopoly board makes one of the longest games even bigger.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

In which a local geological marvel becomes a quaint roadside attraction.

A walkable map of the world, made from soil and stone by one man.

A spectacular rainbow of stained glass makes the "Pink Mosque" one of the most beautiful in Iran.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

This is probably not the Target you're looking for.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

This 170-year-old Swiss guesthouse built into the side of a mountain is best accessed by a cable car.

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Elaborate patterns adorn the city's disappearing traditional architecture.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.