Places nathanlouis1 Wants to Go

The first skyscraper to include a Ferris wheel built into the facade.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.

A bizarre house filled with an astounding array of collections.

Unique antiquarian shop specializing in globes, maps, and prints.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

If astronomy had a ghost, it would look like this observatory.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

The world's largest anatomically accurate brain sculpture.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.

A Manhattan office building is home to the world’s largest chess board.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Monasteries on rock pillars, once accessible only by frayed ropes.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

This hulking behemoth is actually five interconnected towers built in the 1960s.

This hill made entirely of ancient Roman jars was simply a garbage dump to the people of the time.