Weinan, China
Huashan Temple
A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Weinan, China
A sacred mountaintop temple offers a fine cup of tea to visitors who can survive the journey.
Qualicum Beach, British Columbia
Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.
Munlochy, Scotland
A pagan tradition of draping trees with rags eerily lives on.
Fujinomiya, Japan
Reportedly 1,400 years old, this may be the first of the Fiji Mermaids.
Cornimont, France
This collection of French root art looks like an indoor fairy wonderland.
Nervesa della Battaglia, Italy
Hidden in an Italian forest is a completely homemade amusement park that has taken a lifetime to create.
Asheville, North Carolina
The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.
Mill Run, Pennsylvania
Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.
Rancho Palos Verdes, California
A Swedenborgian glass church surrounded by redwoods sits perched atop a massive landslide area.
Iceland
This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.
Tallahassee, Florida
One of only two pod-shaped homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Brooklyn, New York
A charming "tea atelier" hidden away in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
Glasgow, Scotland
Hidden on a cobblestone street in Glasgow, a Czech Cajovna-inspired teahouse serves as a hangout for Bohemians.
Bartow, Florida
Given just one more year to live, Conrad Schuck built his dream house in Bartow, Florida.
Zittau, Germany
This historic little railroad runs through some of the most beautiful scenery in Germany.
Ostrava, Czechia
A massive 1830s industrial site once known as Czechia's "Iron Heart" has been transformed into a playground of science, technology, and art.
Adelaide, Australia
A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.
Port Orange, Florida
Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.
Schroon Lake, New York
This former theme park in New York's Adirondack Mountains fell into ruin before being resurrected as a state-run campground
Keene Valley, New York
The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.
Saranac Lake, New York
Dozens of houses in the Adirondack Mountains are reminders of a literal "cottage industry" to cure people of a deadly disease.
Newcomb, New York
An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.
Wittenoom, Australia
A town whose main resource was blue asbestos... what could possibly go wrong?