Places jfcianci Wants to Go

Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.

A museum dedicated to the history and art of staying clean.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

An urban laboratory.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Site of the greatest known waterfall that ever existed.

A botanic garden full of trees twisted into fantastic shapes and positions.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

This massive, ancient stone was disassembled and then put back together again.

An abandoned town centered around a paper mill powered by a large waterfall.

Lost subway station nestled beneath Toronto's busy commuter line.

This now abandoned arch bridge was constructed during the Great Depression.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

A small Rwandan workshop where you'll find traditional works of art—made from cow dung.

A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.

An alien landscape of chalk-rock in the Egyptian desert.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

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

The unique waterfall in Iceland's south features a backdrop of geometric black lava columns.

This modern monument to pagan belief looks like it was transported straight from ancient times.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

Countless stories attempt to explain Poland's mysterious J-shaped trees.