Places paulb4223 Wants to Go

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

This mesmerizingly colorful pond looks like a scene straight out of a fairytale.

Open-air museum with an elaborate sculpture garden, stretching for over 70,000 square-meters.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

A castle hand-built by a Spanish dreamer in the Australian tropical jungle.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

This enchanting natural park is a magical example of a temperate rainforest in Europe.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A French valley with forests so lush it was nicknamed "the Small Amazonia of the Pyrenees."

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

These towering spires and glowing walls are carefully crafted from hundreds of thousands of icicles.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

This 38-drawer structure claims the superlative title, but it isn't the world's only giant filing cabinet.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

No one really knows how these old hobby horses got here, but the herd keeps growing.

Over 50 whirling pools left behind from the glacial age.

An eccentric inventor's castle home with its own indoor weather system.