Places nyjzane Wants to Go

Standing at 21-feet tall, this space cowboy adds to the legacy of Route 66's muffler men.

According to fictional Kcymaerxthaereal history, a powerful woman with a voice whose beauty could not be concealed found solace at this site at the Majestic Hotel in Singapore.

Two copies of a rejected Victorian-era lamp design still stand along the Thames River.

Morocco's Argania trees are infested with nut-hungry goats.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

One of two lighted lanterns hung in the church belfry on the eve of the Revolutionary War to warn that the British were on their way.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

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

A memorial for an outsider theorist who believed that the planet is actually hollow.

An enormous public square and parade ground built to celebrate Ghana's independence.

In this pristine Ecuadorian hippie town, residents remain active well into their eighties and nineties.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

A perfect replica of the beloved show's first set.

Once the site of a Native American harvest festival, this humble clearing later played an invaluable role in the birth of jazz.

A swirling spectrum of stained glass dazzles visitors who enter this subway station.

The only museum with its curator—and her pets—buried inside.

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

A building-sized painting of the renowned 19th-century American abolitionist.

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

Home to a vast collection of The Wizard of Oz memorabilia and the site of an infamous theft.

Rare wooden escalators lead deep down into an otherwise staggeringly monotonous tiled tunnel.

Hundreds of mossy stones engraved with bits of philosophy, literature and random musings.

The final resting place of a former Dodgers and Mets player can be found in central Brooklyn, in the first diocesan cemetery for Catholics in the borough.