Places Natasha Leyk Wants to Go

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Named after a bandit and the star of several Hollywood prehistoric landscapes, these sandstone formations are a historical part of the Los Angeles natural landscape.

These layered sandstone mountains in China look like they are made of pressed crayons.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

This national park dedicated to the tallgrass prairie ecosystem still displays its military past.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Visitors to this public park will also find the ruins of an old western fort.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

Monty Python fans will recognize this abandoned mine as the Cave of the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog.

The first plantation museum in the United States to focus on the lives of enslaved people.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

Dakota legend claims this locally iconic pinnacle was once part of a sacred burial site that was cleaved in two.

A lone bronze figure stands in memory of historic a 19th century land grab.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

This old residential building was once the largest flour mill in the world.

Eight "Guardians of Health" protect this art deco water tower from pollutants and bacteria.

Conflicting markers on its floor tell a tale of two city centers in San Antonio.

Legend has it the commander of the defenders drew a fateful line in the dirt with his sword just before the final battle.