Places goldelinemydear Wants to Go

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

Peek through the gates at this oasis from the city, full of Old English charm.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

A master plumber has turned his love of art and toilets into a folk museum that's not taking the piss.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

A unique hotel for the artistic soul.

Moss and stone turn this waterfall into an otherworldly liquid veil.

Fabulous formations, weird and wonderful wildlife.

This vertical pinnacle in China was the inspiration for the floating mountains in the movie “Avatar.”

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

A seemingly desolate park that belongs to two countries actually supports all kinds of wildlife.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

An explosion of natural color known as "the river that ran away from paradise."

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Spanish religion mixed with local architecture has yielded a network of churches unlike any other.

An eclectic treasure trove of maritime marvels.

A mysterious crater-like pond has a spooky tendency to empty and fill with complete disregard to rainfall patterns.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.