Places mkenik Wants to Go

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

Showing films since the silent era of the 1920s, it is now the last movie house in downtown Newport.

A colossal gold-dredging machine from the Klondike mining boom, now open to tours.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

An architectural anomaly that preserves the chilling history of medieval ascetics who chose to be buried alive.

6th century Byzantine mosaics preserved on a hill overlooking Lake Ohrid.

A cave with a continual human presence from 20,000 BC outside of Vela Luka on the island of Korcula.

This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.

An eighteenth-century fantasy where monkeys, dragons, and Chinese courtiers emerge from walls made entirely of porcelain.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

This 19th-century stone bridge in Mayenne was renamed after an American soldier who died defusing explosives placed under it, saving it from destruction during the town’s liberation in August 1944.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

An underground venue, buried for 200 years, now open as a unique whisky tasting venue.

This gray utility box is not full of wires; it is a tiny, operational theater hiding on a Downtown Los Angeles sidewalk.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

Once home to a wealthy ironmaster, this 19th-century mansion now holds unique relics from Blair County's past, and perhaps the spirits of its former occupants.

The finest example of Gothic Queen Anne Architecture in the U.S. was built out of rivalry and spite.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

The third tallest plunge fall in Oregon, worth visiting year-round.

Massive gannet colony perched on cliffs, with hiking trails and an interpretation center.