Places Juliana Wants to Go

Menacing or in memoriam, the Silent People and their meaning are left to interpretation.

The people murdered during a 17th-century Norwegian witch hunt have been honored with a pair of stark, modern installations.

The deepest hole drilled in the name of science, where evidence of Precambrian life was found.

A monument to the defenders of the Arctic in Murmansk, Russia.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Rustic natural hot springs in the deciduous rain forest.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

There's something big lurking beneath the surface of this tiny Oregon park.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

Small Nevada town embraced its designation as the "Armpit of America" with an Old Spice-sponsored festival.

The world's largest dead polar bear, immortalized by taxidermy and Hunter S. Thompson.

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

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Where unreadable addresses are read, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

An enormous image of Utah's salt flats made entirely from tape.

Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

These Finnish rapids have been attracting tourists for over a hundred years and are now released with the push of a button.