Places LexaPayne Wants to Go

This volcanic cave lake is essentially hard proof that Iceland is the most magical place on Earth.

The remains of a magnificent medieval fortress that was the capital of a vast empire.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

Grandpa Rainbow felt the neighborhood needed some color, so he picked up a paintbrush and went to work.

This former abandoned hospital, a complex of stunning 19th century buildings, once housed 2,000 psychiatric patients.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

The world's longest known cave system.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

A slice of central Asia in the middle of Berlin.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

A island reachable by a causeway at low tide is possibly one of the earliest Western European locations to be identified in text.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

One of the most well-preserved castles in Italy also contains a rare medieval example of a port fortification.

A natural gas leak provides a flickering flame beneath a waterfall.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

This legendary urban waterfall creates a dazzling display of rainbows.

Flip your own pancakes in this old sugar mill within a Florida state park.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

The stones that traveled from Spain to eventually become a holy place for San Francisco's nature worshippers.

A collection of memorabilia from the Beat era in the back of a San Francisco bookstore.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

This concrete tangle of square pipes has stood as a proud thorn in the city's side since the '70s.

With the touch of a button, you can read a randomly selected short story.