Places lmdani09 Wants to Go

Installed in an act of one-upsmanship, the annual sundial in this church is also a symbolic victory for the Gregorian calendar.

A collection of objects supposedly singed by the hands of souls in purgatory.

The skull of the patron saint of lovers lies in the Basilica di Santa Maria in Cosmedin—maybe.

The only "Egyptian" pyramid in Europe and the legendary tomb of Remus.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

This little valley along Highway 1 is engulfed by thousands of lilies during the spring season.

For those going through a life transition, a place to leave behind a piece of your former self.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

This antique shop specializes in the history of print and design.

Furniture tries to escape an abandoned building in San Francisco.

A masterpiece in Golden Gate Park by virtue of the artist’s debt.

Faceless white figures loom over the city from the rooftop.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

San Francisco's urban bison herd has persisted in the face of extinction, development, and disease.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This huge dam across the Colorado River caused an armed standoff between two U.S. states.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

These lush groves of fan palms rise up like oases out of southern California's Colorado Desert.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.