Places lenayehtaylor Wants to Go

These fantastically named natural pools look like something out of a Scottish myth.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

France's most famous cemetery, with some of its most curious tombs.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

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

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

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

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

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

A charming 17th-century alley is lined with secondhand bookstores and antiquarian shops.

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.