Places lorenpringle Wants to Go

A picturesque vertical garden provides respite from the bustling streets of Bordeaux.

This striking sculpture was created in memory of enslaved people, acknowledging that the city of Bordeaux was France’s second-largest slave-trade port.

These gardens whisk you away to Japan and Morocco—without leaving Bordeaux.

A Roman amphitheatre turned meeting spot for witches.

This Bordeaux parking garage has 712 indoor spaces, and one outdoor.

Lady Liberty's original designer installed a little clone in this French fountain.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

Art blooms at this unique outdoor gallery along the banks of the Arkansas River.

Crystal hunters can dig for their own stones at this DIY mine in Arkansas’ quartz belt.

This mountaintop refuge rehabilitates tigers, lions, bears, and more from illicit wildlife trade—and offers overnight lodging.

You can dig up your own crystals in the quartz capital of the world.

This quirky Arkansas wax museum does not shy away from the macabre and the grotesque.

The Old Mill shown in the opening credits of “Gone With the Wind” is actually fairly new, and was never a mill at all.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

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

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

Witnessing the might of this dessert-colored desert waterfall is a rare, powerful treat.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."