Places lelandbuck Wants to Go

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

This old mining town, deep in the California desert, has a year-round population of one.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

"Only the devil could play golf here."

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

Marta Becket's hand-painted theater in the desert.

Bringing back the art of handmade custom coffins.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

Thousands of crosses and markers for soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan blanket a California hillside.

Cows on a ranch are commonplace, scattered cow bones everywhere? Not so much.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

This cabin once belonged to one of California's original settlers.

This 15-story mural celebrates the 50th anniversary of the musician's iconic "At Folsom Prison" album.

One of Sydney's oldest graveyards hides in plain sight behind a hospital.

Built over an abandoned train yard, this hidden gem is full of winding paths and offers gorgeous views of Sydney Harbour.

An ancient engraving by the Cammeraygal people was uncovered in the transformation of a North Sydney industrial site.

This secret Australian garden was built on love after a man planted a random bulb he found in the ocean.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

These sea cliffs are an epic natural wonder.

This church's unusual design comes from its previous life as a mortuary station.

Rainforest filled with record-holding eucalyptus.

First mosque in Canada, second in North America.