Places mojavenc Wants to Go

This patch of old-growth forest is home to Canada's gnarliest tree.

A tiny plaque hidden miles into the Washington wilderness is all that remains to honor a shipwreck that left 18 people dead.

A lush Seattle garden designed by the same landscape architects responsible for New York's Central Park.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

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

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

This Virginia town has been famous for its fried chicken since the 19th century.

They sort through millions of dollars worth of diplomatic gifts on behalf of the government.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

The preamble to the U.S. Constitution written entirely from vanity license plates hangs in the Smithsonian museum.

The oldest continuously operating fish market in the United States.

An eatery within the Minneapolis American Indian Center writes colonial ingredients out of the story of Native American cuisine.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

The Bauhaus-style former industrial complex is considered the world's most beautiful coal mine.

This strategic isle was once swapped between empires and almost entirely destroyed in a bomb explosion.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

Lavish royal estate punctuated with heated greenhouses.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

Over two centuries old and counting, Madrid's massive botanical garden contains one of Europe's only desert environments.

Spanish architects used seized Muslim gravestones to rebuild parts of the fortress.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

This surreal-looking tree pruned more than 1,000 years ago is still producing olives for oil.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.