Places Natasha Leyk Wants to Go

The sculpture of the deceased cockatoo flops atop its personal plinth.

This house proudly displays an interactive and continuously changing exhibit of lawn flamingos.

This statue honors the thousands of Allied avians that served and died for France during World War I.

The state bird of New Mexico, constructed entirely out of garbage.

This metal eagle one of the final remnants of a newspaper that wanted to keep Brooklyn to Brooklyn.

The little tuxedo cat survived the trip, then languished in obscurity.

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

Gladiators battle and chariots race daily in the ruins of a once-great Roman city.

This hunter-gatherer architecture is believed to be the oldest religious complex known.

This 200-meter-high waterfall marks the site of Achilles’ immortal baptism at the mouth of the River Styx.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

Thousands of years ago, Indigenous people painted images onto these canyon walls that are still on display today, provocative, mysterious, and enduring reminders of the people who lived here long ago.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

A ghost town originally established and governed solely by Black Americans seeking a place of their own, free from discrimination.

This ramshackle ghost town is comprised of mining-era buildings collected from around the region.

An abandoned town is hidden in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Vice President Humphrey's final resting place is tucked away in this cemetery along with a few other notable figures.

Summer in the "Turtle Racing Capital of the World" means rousing weekly reptile races.

This institution celebrates the happy accidents of uncommon sticktoitiveness.