Places pikapika Wants to Go

This beautiful ridge-top trail is dotted by tiny homes apparently built by a group of itinerant fairies.

The USSR’s Conquest of Nature lead to the domestication of many moose—no squirrel.

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

A safe place for the wild donkeys of a hot vacation destination.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

Nature and beauty amidst pollution and industrial wreckage.

A rainbow-colored house promotes LGBTQ rights across the street from the Westboro Baptist Church.

A floating cat sanctuary on an Amsterdam canal.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

Located in Nairobi National Park, this animal orphanage is the oldest of its kind in Kenya.

These particularly resplendent rodents are the state animal of Maharashtra.

The only Florida state park with publicly accessible caves.

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Once home to Komodo dragons, this island dreamscape has a rare combination of white, pink, and black sand beaches.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Singing sand that stands as the final remains of an ancient lake.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

Granny Smiths and Fujis can both be traced back to Kazakhstan, where apples still grow wild.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

The grassy landscape is home to the world's last truly wild horses.

This crescent-shaped sliver of sand is a magical haven for a herd of feral horses.

J.R.R Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and other "Inklings" met at the Oxford pub to discuss the now legendary fantasy stories they were writing.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.