Places Matthew Bean Wants to Go

These limestone cliffs are associated with the Greek myth of Prometheus.

Instead of fruit, the branches of this tree are brimming with hopes and dreams.

Four-story concrete hotel never opened to customers.

A tiny village church in dramatic surroundings.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

Twelve plaster figures inspired by da Vinci's famed painting haunt the desert landscape above a real-life ghost town.

This Italian dam is covered in salt-hungry goats who manage to scale its almost vertical face.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Nestled in an unassuming residential area, this "forbidden forest" is rumored to spirit away those who dare enter it.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

An enormous white temple that honors the birthplace of a Hindu goddess.

The flower-shaped temple in Virginia aims to transcend the boundaries of the world’s religions.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

This abandoned mining village was predicted to resist decay longer than any other modern human settlement.

This fantastical faceless sculpture in Spain is on the grandest scale.

Berkeley Springs State Park boasts the nation's only monument commemorating presidential bathing.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

Over two-thirds of the world's population of giant tortoises live among this coral formation.

These ancient giraffes are the largest known animal petroglyphs in the world.

The tallest mud-brick structure in the world has been standing since the 1500s.

The most remote tree in the world survived desertification, but not a drunk truck driver.

The world's most remote memorial to the victims of the UTA Flight 772 disaster.

A semi-retired nurse’s record-setting collection of 3,000 tiny chairs.