Places janepeytonjohnson Wants to Go

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

An all-American grocery store in Paris sells U.S. "cuisine" like Pop-Tarts and Heinz ketchup to homesick ex-pats.

Indents in the pavement are all that remain from a grisly death machine in Paris.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

The subterranean "lake" below the Paris opera house inspired the Phantom of the Opera's lair.

This massive fiberglass Gulliver turns every visitor into a Lilliputian.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

One thousand trees were planted in Norway to be used to print books a century from now.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

A pair of giant legs paying homage to a poem, a king, and it would seem, socks.

It's not your typical library, memorial, or book store.

Only museum in the world devoted to bookbinding and book arts holds a permanent collection representing five centuries.

A futuristic, brutalist masterpiece that is also strangely prison-like.

This massive blockhead sculpture hides an entire library.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

Peek through a transparent pyramid and drink in the mountain made of books.

A shape-shifting buy-sell-trade bookstore, born to Beatnik Era spirit.