Places Mira Wants to Go

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

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

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

A psychedelic labyrinth on the San Francisco bay.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

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

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

This Scottish bridge seems to compel dogs to leap to their death.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

The heads of two giant mythological water horses honor Scotland's horselord past.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

A (slightly) grownup take on the classic retro arcade.

Tacoma’s 25-foot coffee pot music spot has served up over 80 years of concrete kitsch.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

This massive chapel in the middle of the Indonesian forest is both haunting and fowl.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

Birds with backpacks expedite film development for a rafting company on a remote Colorado river.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A French chateau, failed utopian community, odd museum, and Stonehenge replica in rural Washington State.