Places lirlir9 Wants to Go

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

After the devastating 2011 earthquake, historic Christchurch begins to recover, starting with the pop-up Re:START mall.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

A glacier pocked with ice caves and surrounded by rainforests.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

Hundreds of bras, blowing in the wind.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Temporary Burning Man sculpture made of two 18-wheelers.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

A breathtaking canyon offers stunning views and frightful pathways through an ecological paradise.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A 70,000-square-foot institution dedicated to a very literal, creationist perspective on the Book of Genesis.

Empty, but not abandoned, this cavernous Brooklyn loading dock was once considered the largest individual building in the world.

Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.

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

Once the nail factory shut its doors, this Swedish factory town was abandoned, leaving behind a modern ghost town.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

Abandoned medieval hill town.

The remains of diamond fever taken over by the desert.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A hands-off space for graffiti artists to hone and display their skills.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

This abandoned Belgian fortress is purposefully being left to nature.