Places Mark H Wants to Go

Museum of stuffed gophers set up in various scenes.

Canadian centennial project designed to gather information about UFOs.

This Canadian exhibit with claims as the largest one man taxidermy collection in North America.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

Just outside this metal recycling center stands a prehistoric creature composed of scraps.

105-foot wide giant metallic flower blooms anew every day in the heart of Buenos Aires.

A memorial to the victims of Argentina's "Dirty War."

Abandoned bull fighting ring, slowly falling apart in Uruguay.

Xul Solar was an artist of alternate worlds, inventor of languages, and dreamer of utopias.

An Olympic hero stripped of his medals is buried in a town he never visited, which took his name after his death.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

Rusting ships sit in a desert where a sea used to be.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Former drug lord’s manor, now a theme park. Watch out for the hippos.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

An overlooked and unassuming engineering marvel.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Nestled in the heart of San Francisco’s bustling Financial District stands a unique homage to the Mayan and Beaux Arts.