Places Juliana Wants to Go

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

Many of the murals covering this sleepy Florida town hide some sort of intentional error.

A Prada store in the West Texas desert that is never open for business.

L. Frank Baum wrote part of the "Wizard of Oz" series in this wooden Victorian beach resort.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This building featuring Brutalist architecture has a rich media production history.

The largest cave in Northern Europe.

The residents of the Neighborhood of Make-Believe live without much fanfare within the Pittsburgh Children's Museum.

A renowned Civil War veteran, this Bald eagle now presides over the Wisconsin State Assembly.

Norway has built what may be the world's most beautiful public toilet.

This otherwise ordinary close on the Royal Mile constituted the end of the world for Edinburgh’s poorest residents.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

A collection of old steam and diesel locomotives sitting in a fenced-off garden.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.

The superstar of Cold War nuclear bunkers has been featured in countless films but is now barely operational.

The moving metal works of one troubled artist can still be viewed on his front lawn... for now.

A once-thriving hotel in the Swiss Alps couldn't compete with climate change.

Sweden's oldest street has not changed for nearly a millennium.

Nepal’s last remaining population of wild water buffalo and many other rare species call this reserve home.

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

The largest cemetery for enslaved people in Loudoun County was almost lost to history, if not for the research of a minister.

The not-quite-incorruptible St. Bernadette is perhaps the most beautiful of preserved saints—with a little help from Paris.

This abandoned villa of makeshift buildings was once the home of dancer Elis Sinistö.

This mesmerizing medieval monastery-cave complex sits thousands of feet above ground overlooking a valley.