Places nellieray Wants to Go

A pair of large white marble lions guard this stretch of the Mojave Desert, and it is utterly mysterious how they got there.

The remnants of an early automobile route across shifting sand dunes can still be found in the deserts of Southern California.

Deep in the Negev Desert, the world's tallest solar tower looks like a sight straight out of science fiction.

A piece of the iconic wall found an unlikely new home in a Vegas bathroom.

This artist's studio is decorated inside and out with tiles, mosaics, and ceramic dishware.

This Art Deco house is home to the world's largest collection of Dora Gordine's paintings, drawings, and sculptures.

Over a million items cram the shelves at Africa's largest shop of used and rare books.

Explore more than 130,000 new and used books in the "world's largest outdoor bookstore."

A sprawling maze of used books piled from floor to ceiling.

A bibliophile's heaven that contains hundreds of bookstores, offering over a third of secondhand books for sale in Tokyo.

With its vast selection of books, comics, and records, this nearly 70-year-old open-air market always rewards the patient browser.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Built to test magnetically levitated elevators, the tower also boasts Germany's highest visitor platform.

A corkscrew-shaped barn in Ireland.

The United States's largest hand-dug well is topped with a state-of-the-art museum.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A Brutalist architectural gem hidden among Skopje’s neoclassical buildings.

This 600-year-old home seems to defy physics.

A forest outside Darmstadt becomes an open-air art gallery, where international artists turn trees, branches, stones, and clearings into strange, playful, and thought-provoking works.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Hidden in plain sight on a pair of Manhattan subway tunnels are a pair of public instruments that sing to each other.