Places lostinthe530 Wants to Go

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

The ruins of New Zealand's largest classical-style church.

Did Inca children also slide down these smooth rocky slopes above Cusco?

Thousands of volcanic rocks carved 1,000 years ago.

This fully intact Neoclassical-Greek Revival style firehouse operated until 1938.

Rising out of miles of farmland, these buttes are sometimes called the world's smallest mountain range.

California's first suspension bridge.

A picturesque example of brute-force engineering conquering nature.

The oldest orange tree in California spawned a generation of citrus farmers.

A train tunnel that was made obsolete by the dam it helped create.

Home of what was the largest hydraulic mine in the world, producing gold and the first diamonds in the U.S.

A pretty park of over 1,600 olive trees that grew from just three saplings brought over from Spain.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.