Hitachinaka, Japan
Kochia Hill
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Hitachinaka, Japan
Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
A beautiful geyser under environmental threat.
Beacon, New York
The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.
Naica, Mexico
A gargantuan crystal kingdom.
Crater Lake, Oregon
The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.
San Luis Obispo, California
A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.
Winslow, Arizona
This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."
Casa Grande, Arizona
An abandoned facility that has become a place of ritualistic satanic worship, or so rumor has it.
Forks, Washington
Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.
Aksaray, Turkey
In this historic region, homes and churches are carved into ancient volcanic rock formations.
Crossville, Tennessee
This structure among the trees was the result of divine inspiration.
Washington, D.C.
With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.
Washington, D.C.
The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Roscoe, New York
An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.
Calhan, Colorado
Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.
Kalabaka, Greece
Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.
Greece
A spectacular cave and a beguiling lake.
Kawasaki, Japan
This faux-seedy Japanese arcade is made up to look like a maze of alleys straight out of a cyberpunk dystopia.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.
Tambon Chiang Haeo, Thailand
Stunning wetlands ablaze with pink lotus flowers.
Calipatria, California
A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.
Beacon, New York
Collapsing castle on the Hudson river was once the storage site of military surplus business.