Places misshalili Wants to Go

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

A tunnel once abandoned now thrives with graffiti art as an off-limits makeshift gallery.

The world's longest known cave system.

A self-built castle made by a mysterious man.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A DIY art gallery/music venue/lecture hall dedicated to video game culture.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This upscale streetwear store is hidden behind a fake Snapple machine in the back of a deli.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

Carved by a waterfall in a hard-to-reach rock formation, this heart-shaped rock has inspired romantics for decades.

A pedestrian island in the middle of world-famous Times Square emits a strange (and purposeful) humming noise.

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

The magic's in the hole!

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

In the middle of an extremely unforgiving and desolate high desert is the most secret military facility in the world.

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

Established in the '60s, a family-owned tropical drink bar founded by Ray Buhen, bartender to the stars.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.