Places laureltree Wants to Go

A whimsical village of unique treehouses resides in a Washington forest.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

120 mortarless pagodas built by one Korean hermit.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This former Masonic hall has been turned into an art project that uses even more metaphysical iconography.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

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

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.

The medieval network of canals hidden underneath the city is opened to explorers each year.

A bright turquoise river cascades beautifully down stepped terraces in southern China.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

A devastated ruin in the south of Belize where British explorers claimed to unearth the Mitchell-Hedges Crystal Skull.

Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

A church of bones, decorated with 40,000 human skeletons.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

Rowdy rebels fortified this home during the first popular uprising in United States history.

A genuine Tudor manor transported piece by piece from England.

The final resting place of two (or three) presidents, one vampire, and 18,000 Confederate soldiers.