Places Lo C Wants to Go

Full-scale dinosaurs dominate the forested park in the middle of Chile’s second city.

150 or so scrounged-up lamps, chandeliers, and lanterns light up this alley in central Athens.

A dark tunnel leads to a striking white crater that seems to be from another planet.

Sections of the iconic limestone columns have been left uncleaned as a reminder of the city's polluted past.

This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

The reason for the strange contortions in the trunks of these "drunken" pine trees in Russia is still a mystery.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

A perfect circle of 24 mysterious holes dates back to prehistoric times.

Natural catch-basin rocks covered in thousands of drawings spanning many millennia.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.

A preserved oak tree about 3,500 years old found in Riga, Latvia.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Constantly maintained, this organ is playing a six-century long composition by John Cage.

Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A forgotten remnant of the Soviet Union, Transnistria is an unrecognized country hidden behind a heavily militarized border between Moldova and Ukraine.

The once forbidden "secret cabinet" of erotic art from excavations of Pompeii and Herculaneum.