Places michaelpatrickfagan Wants to Go

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

This abandoned fishing settlement may well be the greenest village in the world.

A part of the world's largest marsh seems to be growing bright red Martian grass.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

One car at a time please.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

Find regional specialties from the Thai-Laotian border inside in a North Hollywood swap meet's food court.

An academy where anyone can train in the exciting acrobatic sports of parkour and freerunning.

This rare tortoise skeleton has been hanging around the downtown Los Angeles museum for over a century.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Hidden above a drug store on a nondescript corner of Lincoln Heights is a private clubhouse for intrepid explorers.

The quiet canyon has a tumultuous history involving a doomsday cult.

A fashion designer's dazzling world of Japanese collectibles is hidden in a warehouse downtown.

World's oldest operating science fiction and fantasy club, once home to Ray Bradbury and L. Ron Hubbard.

A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.

Panorama exhibition hall in old silent theater with a beautiful backyard garden.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

These giant mummies are set ominously into a Peruvian cliffside and topped with real human skulls.

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.