Places irenel Wants to Go

This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A museum of anything and everything Stooge.

Mutant vegetables, transgenic mosquitos, and atomic rodents span the walls of this one-of-a-kind museum.

A restored Pittsburgh house of God has been converted to a marvelous house of suds.

Once the "Eighth Wonder of the World," this iron railroad bridge was decimated by a tornado.

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

"Drunken ship" sculpture memorializing the French poet in the city where he died.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

A private garden of sculptural eccentricities.

This mosque was based on Sub-Saharan Islamic architecture and created for the Senegalese Tirailleurs.

A museum dedicated to linguistics, from how babies learn to talk to endangered and extinct languages.

In France, a medieval-style home pays homage to an intrepid explorer who discovered Québec.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

This submersible road connecting a French island to the mainland is lined with safety towers for when the tide strands travelers.

A bike train runs along a disused railway line through the tranquil French countryside.

A tiled, multi-level garden of survival in Lyon.

Museum in a swimming pool where the water still flows.

A medieval military street hidden beneath a charming French fishing village.

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

One of the greatest maze designer’s greatest mazes.

The water-powered carriages are long gone, but for over a century this funicular railway has been the fastest route to the highest point in Paris.

How did a French journalist’s grave become the sexiest statue in the cemetery?

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.