Places Ramika Wants to Go

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

This California family's ancestral melon is sold only here.

Not-so-fearsome tiny trolls live under this wooden train trestle in Portland.

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

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

Thousands of letters to Santa get delivered to this mailbox in Greenland.

Six beautiful wooden giants are hidden around Copenhagen.

An exquisite tunnel of cascading flowers.

This historic, palatial theater is now one of the world’s most beautiful bookstores.

This once-derelict building is now one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world.

At night, bats patrol this magnificent 18th-century space in search of book-eating pests.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A Jenga-style cylindrical tower of books that appears to go on forever.

The hidden lair of an alchemist rediscovered in a 2002 flood.

An abandoned railroad tunnel is now filled with bioluminescent bugs.

A massive natural rock arch gives the Tuscan mountain its own window to the sky.

A long, winding trek rewards you with a gorge so captivating it inspired a painting in the Tate.

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

Strange rock formations tower above the river that snakes through this enchanting Icelandic canyon.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

This extraordinary geological oddity resembles human-made pavement.

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

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