Places Kiri the Unicorn Wants to Go

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

A brief journey through early 19th-century pioneer life across Linn County.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

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

Fifty years after a “blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds,” this idyllic natural area commemorates the carnage.

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

A natural dome made of volcanic glass in Inyo National Forest.

A one-of-a-kind sundial at the Very Large Array honors a radio astronomy pioneer, incorporating the original piers from his breakthrough radio telescope.

The NASA scientists behind Apollo 11 started out developing Nazi weapons at this abandoned German rocket factory.

As a show of peace, a Japanese naval pilot gifted his 400-year-old Samurai sword to the Oregon town he bombed.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This small town in the Netherlands has no roads but instead, miles of canals and over 100 bridges.

One extremely determined man's homemade universe.

Space program, pneumatics and more, bits and pieces, for movie sets or the common man.

Suburban observatory was personal lab of the father of modern astrophysics.

This former stomping grounds of the most eminent astronomers of the early 20th century.

In the days before HD projectors and IMAX, some of the most powerful projectors belonged to planetariums.

Earth's tallest volcano is sacred to Native Hawaiians, and home to a dozen world-class observatories.

The biggest solar telescope in the world helps reveal the secrets of our sun.

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

Behemoth, cannon-like telescope operated by generations of Irish earls.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

NASA's leading space science lab started by a co-founder with deep ties to the occult.