Places maren Wants to Go

This is what trains will look like after the zombie apocalypse.

Street artists transformed an abandoned air vent into the beloved Star Wars robot.

A Frankenstein blend of science and art allows one tree to produce 40 different types of stone fruit.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A bright and wacky exhibit answers every question you may have had about human excrement, flatulence, and more.

The history of radiation is on safe display at the foot of a radiation science laboratory.

Julia Morgan's Moorish-Gothic labyrinth of fountains, trees, natural light and Oakland's notable dead.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

From Tintin to the Smurfs, Europe's greatest graphic icons are celebrated in a grand Art Noveau gallery.

Climb inside an iron crystal magnified 165 billion times its normal size.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

Natural history museum celebrating biodiversity with a parade of taxidermy animals.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

Known as the "Dodo Manège," this carousel features a herd of animals that have disappeared—or may be gone soon.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

The New York hotel where tragic visionary Nikola Tesla spent his final hours, destitute and alone but for the pigeons.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

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

A hardware store Buddha statue installed to deter vandalism wound up attracting Vietnamese immigrants who came to pray.

This graceful little figure is a one-of-a-kind version of the cherished character.