Places maryewolcott Wants to Go

A fantastic array of trays and cables once whisked books over to the Capitol at 600 feet per minute.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

At the United Kingdom's only residential library you can sleep among the books.

This gorgeous reading room houses the oldest and largest art history library in the Netherlands.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

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

The artist David Nash planted a circle of trees in 1977.

Where lovers tie birch branches into long-lived knots.

A German town is growing a building out of trees.

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

Home to the "Circus" trees created by Axel Erlandson.

The London statue that imitates passersby.

Lyon, France is home to two remarkably preserved Roman theaters, one dating back to 15 BCE.

Exquisite wall sculptures carved in secret by an early quarryman in an obscure corner of the Paris Catacombs.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

France's high-tech, future-themed amusement park.

The bottle house obsession struck a Florida man in his retirement, and now he can't stop building.

Everyone and everything one man ever loved and lost, now stare into the East for all eternity.