Places raquel9e Wants to Go

The world's largest rose bush has literally outgrown the pioneer museum it was planted behind.

This striking public art installation is suspended above a public park, designed to gently move in the breeze.

A spiritual vortex among the red rocks in Sedona.

Miniature art that tells an enormous story.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

An homage to everyone's favorite prehistoric cartoon family.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

The vast, legendary catacombs hold secrets much stranger than stacked bones.

This enormous "shamoji" means more to the people of Miyajima than just a way getting rice onto a plate.

A collection of more than 1,000 teddies from nearly any profession.

The iconic castle that withstood a magnitude 6.2 earthquake has become a symbol of resilience.

A remote and slightly overgrown park filled with replicas of world landmarks.

Japan's largest and oldest annual procession of floats, begun in 869.

This pond is so stunning it looks like you've stepped into one of Monet's masterpieces.

One of the largest producers of MSG in the world welcomes visitors to its Kawasaki factory with an albino panda named Aji-Kun.

Japan's largest area of "pink moss" turns the hillside bright pink every spring.

Make your own fake treats at this factory and workshop in the epicenter of Japan's food replica industry.

The largest of the Fuji Five Lakes is home to an impressive swan population—some real, some with paddles, and one with an observation deck.

Thirty architectural gems from the 19th- and early 20th-century Tokyo were restored and relocated to this space.