Places ktknoll Wants to Go

Despite the ever pressing encroachment of urban sprawl this grand New Orleans manse still stands.

An inspired museum dedicated to the patron saint of enslaved people, inside the cloisters where he lived and died.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

The sister plane of the C-123 shot down during the Iran-Contra Affair has found a new purpose in retirement.

Costa Rican accommodation resembles a crash site, but with a nice balcony.

The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.

A mysterious dark-skinned Christ statue has been this town's religious center for centuries.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Preserved Inca city and site of the last Inca stronghold against the Spanish conquistadors.

Huge stone depressions which may have acted as an Incan agricultural experiment.

This Peruvian canyon is filled with geometric salt pools that have been being harvested since the Incan empire.

A remote candy-striped mountain in the Peruvian Andes straight out of the pages of Dr. Seuss.

A black and white solution to the Bolivian city's traffic problems.

Death road of Bolivia.

Mountain of unimaginable riches that bankrolled the Spanish Empire, complete with its own underworld god.

Art from the latest counter-culture; kids who dye their hair blue and believe the future will be a post-apocalyptic water world.

Since 1973, this block has been home to the most concentrated collection of murals in San Francisco.

A promotional sun clock on the site of San Francisco's great raceway.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.