Places peter2guerin Wants to Go

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

This futuristically sylvan church is a glass-enclosed marvel of modern architecture.

Better known as the "Body Farm," this unique research facility has been studying how human bodies break down since the 1980s.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

Bizarre lunar-like landscape with thousands of large stone "hoodoos."

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

On a river island north of Bangkok, a small bar helped lead a home-brewing rebellion.

This quirky little private museum is home to more than a thousand stones, carved by nature, that resemble human faces.

The largest freshwater lake in northeast India is also the only floating national park in the world.

This fortress played a key role in the battle that would ultimately give rise to the Maratha Empire.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

This oak sculpture at the edge of a small woodland is nine feet tall and shrouded in mystery.

An unusual sand beach in the middle of a forest.

This modernist island church incorporates the Finnish nature into its worship practices.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

The remains of a century-old mansion that met a fiery demise years after it was deserted.

Children's literature inside, forest all around.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

This artificial archipelago was supposed to resemble a map of the world.

This strange portrait of six ladies with chicken bodies commemorates a count's dirty habits.

This storied music venue was once a tavern that housed an Italian Anarchist book club and prohibition parties; today it's a community space for artists and musicians.