Places MiguelO Wants to Go

This ancient jade mask depicting the Zapotec bat god was found in the ruins of the pyramids of Monte Alban.

A small, family-friendly museum dedicated to the “god of special effects” who brought Godzilla to life.

High in the trees or suspended between cables, these surreal structures are the works of a unique Japanese architect.

This sign marks the start and end of Matt Green's nearly 10,000-mile quest to walk every block of every street in New York City.

A life-size bronze statue of Ettore Boiardi, the man behind the can.

This trio of reliefs—an ear, a mouth, and a pair of eyes—carved into the walls of flooded quarries is a monument to spying.

Slip in a slide while waiting for the ferry.

During the French annexation, 36 prisoners were executed using this device.

A controversial interactive sculpture that "weeps" water.

A larger-than-life representation of the humble aloe plant.

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Street names don't get more "late capitalism" than this.

Long buried under the 20th-century landscape, this lift lock of the Alexandria Canal is the lone remnant of an ambitious early American transportation project.

Floating on the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal is a contorted canal boat that honors the waterway’s heritage.

At one of Berlin’s oldest churches, visitors can place mosaic tiles to help restore a medieval mural.

Photographs of the faces of the town's dead cover the walls of this small Italian church.

The niches over the western entrance of Westminster Abbey honor individuals from the 20th century who gave their lives for their Christian beliefs.

According to legend, this is the burial place of a mythical three-legged death omen horse.

This massive crater in the middle of nowhere was used to train astronauts for moon landings.

An unusual double cinder cone with a bent oval crater, in the Lunar Crater Volcanic Field.

Water gushes from the trunk of this miraculous mulberry tree about once a year.

See how Laura Ingalls lived on the Minnesota prairie.

These massive concrete foundations and smelter chimney bricks still smell like smoke after a century.