Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

A heavenly experience, right here on Terra Firma.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Unknown to many, this sparkling turquoise lake hides amid Oregon's snowcapped mountains.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

1920's mining camp and environmental education center is serving to protect the surrounding forest, one of the last of its kind in the Pacific Northwest.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

Giant eggs, walls of bread, and nightmare surreality mark the largest collection of works by Salvador Dalí.

Brightly colored 30-foot-tall totems light up the desert sky just outside Las Vegas.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

This charming cobbled backstreet is the most Instagramable street in Paris, much to the residents' annoyance.

The most photographed house in Maine looks good enough to eat.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

An unlikely beach paradise of giant sand dunes lies between two lakes just a few minutes from Michigan's cherry country.

One of the largest ochre quarries in the world, hidden in a limestone landscape.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

This shifting North Carolina sand dune is an odd little desert surrounded by oceanic forest life.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

A desert settlement founded and later abandoned by Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah's Skull Valley.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.