Places MeanderingMind Wants to Go

If you can look past the nearby sewer pipes, this urban sinkhole grotto is a mini-paradise.

These haunting ruins of a 700-year-old Prehispanic city have witnessed centuries of wars and massacres.

The jewel of western Mexico's archaeological legacy is this tiered circular pyramid now covered in grass.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

This fantastical house shaped like a seashell brings aquatic design to architecture.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.

Frida Kahlo's childhood home, now a museum of her life and works.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

An Aztec snake god has taken the material form of an apartment complex.

An island filled with hundreds of hanging, decomposing, decapitated dolls.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

This little museum is built on a theater that was once a wildly elaborate speakeasy.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

A museum dedicated to the history and exploration of both popular music and science fiction.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.