Places Matthew Bean Wants to Go

Mother Nature outdoes herself with this stunningly beautiful set of caves carved into marble.

This museum celebrates a legendary railroad photographer whose personal life was as dramatic as his photos.

The Harlem Renaissance poet and activist wrote, organized, and hosted travelers in this Lynchburg, Virginia oasis.

Victoria's largest salt lake is a favorite haunt for photographers and stargazers.

This mysterious artificial cave has long puzzled New Englanders.

A historic structure that once housed pigeons used by farmers to help fertilize farmland.

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

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

When it was built in 1929, this historic bridge was the only place to cross the Colorado River for 600 miles.

This isolated outpost was once the only place to cross the Colorado River for hundreds of miles.

Archaeologists believe this panel of petroglyphs depicting descending sheep and other figures in Glen Canyon are 3,000 to 6,000 years old.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

This unique art installation used boiler tubes from a decommissioned power plant to resemble Antelope Canyon.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Home of the Daffodil Festival, Castle Craig, and a ghostly hound.

Brisbane's manmade urban beach has enough water to fill five Olympic-sized swimming pools.

After a 2004 tsunami, this stranded boat was left in place.

Henry Ford's failed rubber plantation in the middle of the Amazon rain forest.

Giant animal sculptures are created with the rice straw leftover from the fall harvest each year.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The world's first fish doorbell monitors this water passageway.

The home and birthplace of Caroline Dormon, a naturalist, artist, and the "mother of the Kisatchie National Forest."

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

The tennis legend became the best in the world (partly) thanks to practicing against his garage door, now on display in a museum near his childhood home.