Places lea974 Wants to Go

This dazzlingly turquoise mountain lake was created in the wake of a natural disaster.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

Legends of treasure and spirits flow from this this fairy tale-like oasis.

Thousands of mounted insects, and some live ones, hide within an otherwise ordinary shopping mall.

Located in a veterinary school, this macabre exhibit displays the effects of animal diseases.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A medieval church with largest and oldest collection of Renaissance frescoes in France.

An aluminum skeleton brings Chinese mythology to the French shore.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This jaw-dropping 19th-century bridge uses its reflection to form what appears to be a perfect circle.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Each spring, a dreamlike carpet of bluebells overtakes the forest floor.

A magical and peaceful ruined Cistercian abbey in what is now southern Belgium.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

The bizarre visions of H.R. Giger, tucked away in a Swiss medieval city.

This ornate church designed by a self-taught architect is an eclectic masterpiece in the heart of Central Mexico.