Places froeckmann Wants to Go

In the basement of a San Francisco performing arts center, a small museum dedicated to the history of showgirls.

A 30-mile-long glacially-carved canyon leads to a massive pair of glaciers.

Along the Outback Scenic Byway, adjacent to hot springs, this human-made geothermal feature takes unexplained breaks.

This jagged colossus of a building is mostly held together by an enormous concrete exoskeleton.

Absolutely no saxophones in the library.

Once home to the largest photo service in the United States.

A hidden gem, named after a San Franciscan icon, offers spectacular views of the Pacific Ocean.

Made of granite, this is a symbol of the Inuit peoples near water that expresses abundance.

A centuries-old quest to create artificial life is alive and well in the French town of Limoux.

A historic train ride from California to Mexico.

A tribute shrine where the Space Invasion street art movement started.

An actor's tribute to a former mentor.

Hidden in the garden of physicist Erwin Schrödinger's house is a life-size figure of a cat from his famous thought experiment.

A real-life homage to the Rachel McAdams and Will Ferrell's fictional Eurovision musical duo.

This museum in San Francisco's Chinatown is one of the oldest and largest archives of Chinese American history and culture.

In the heart of Luxembourg's "little Switzerland" weaves a breathtaking natural sandstone canyon with a mythological past.

How did a 2,000-year-old Roman column find its way to a Chicago park?

The second-largest giant sequoia in the world.

Naturally carbonated water fills the mineral baths at this 19th-century California resort.

This solitary convex mirror sculpture at an abandoned ferry station at the edge of a fjord reflects the scenery back at the viewer.

See four top-secret US spy aircraft of the Cold War era, including the legendary SR-71 Blackbird and the A-12 Oxcart.

Fantastic stainless steel dragon gates complete with mesh wings.

A uniquely preserved neo-Gothic church that is now home to a collection of art and woodcarvings.

For more than 170 years, this family-run bakery has been serving Berlin’s best Baumkuchen, or “tree cake.”