Places Joshua Foer Wants to Go

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A New York warehouse filled with an enormous amount of goods saved from the landfills and donated for creative use.

Deceased nuns were placed on stone chairs to decompose, while the surviving nuns prayed near the lifeless bodies.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

One of several skulls claiming to belong to the beheaded St. John the Baptist is on display at this Roman church.

One man's personal kunstkammer, museum and shop.

A hospital where antique dolls are given new life.

America's "second most important bell" is a contentious spoil of the Civil War.

A long spiraling walkway winds through the woods, and around a copper beech tree at the center.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

A futuristic hovertrain is parked unceremoniously alongside a nondescript road.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

Four-story slides send people whizzing through the math department at this Munich university.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A rugged lava field dotted with molds of the ancient pines that were growing when the volcano erupted.

The roadway bend where highway painters practice their craft looks like expressionist art.

Every May, townspeople welcome summer with a bizarre pagan parade led by a man wrapped in garlands.

A brightly colored natural bridge formed by mineral-rich hot springs high up in the Andes.

An off-the-beaten-path boutique stuffed with an eclectic collection of upcycled goods.

Quirky outsider art transforms this garden shop into a little stone fantasyland.

Dozens upon dozens of boulders engraved with scripture tell the story of one man's troubled life.