Places jddarcy Wants to Go

A charming desert roadside bakery that produces 10 times more bread daily than it has residents in its town.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Eons old volcanic activity created one of the most stunning rock formations in the United States.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

One man spent 10 years building a spectacular section of road because no one else would.

This hands-on math museum believes in turning concepts into constructs.

Astronomers plan to launch a space telescope into orbit, to find out what exactly stands in the way of an asteroid hitting Earth.

Built by the inventor of the radio, this abandoned hotel has housed early radio employees, military men, and a dangerous cult.

'Cause the fence start shaking, the earth was quaking.

When the public was consulted about a new piece of street art, they naturally asked for an enormous metal dragon.

Dublin's "Dead Zoo" serves as a window to Victorian museum design.

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

A teddy bear sits on a chair watching the sunset from the mountaintop—just as the late Dan Clancy had done since childhood.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

The enchanting archway is the only surviving portal into Dublin’s lost medieval wall.

A slightly creepy gallery of plaster cast models in the same museum as Michelangelo's David.

This former Texas landfill is flush with 300 million-year-old fossils, all fit for the taking.

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

American involvement in World War I officially ended in 1921 in New Jersey, three years late and thousands of miles from the battlefield.

This large sand dune in the Netherlands is home to wind-whipped trees with "floating" roots.