Places reedbalmer Wants to Go

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A Pythagorean funhouse that tries, successfully, to prove that math is the coolest thing ever.

Water and windows define this defensive Italian well.

A medieval village holds a very modern hotel.

Visitors dip into a variety of pools of what was once ice.

A plaque marks the site directly below the mid-air detonation of the atomic bomb over Hiroshima.

The largest pool at its elevation sits on top of one of the most expensive resorts in the world.

A harrowing trail up a mile-high mountain.

An enchanting monastery in the Spanish countryside appears lifted from a fantasy tale.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

A German apartment building hosting as many trees as human occupants.

Wine bottle sculpture with a ship's stateroom inside.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This fantastical icy castle is built anew every winter.

Hydraulic systems in an ancient underground Iranian city.

Ottoman-era houses lovingly preserved.

Pluto is still considered a planet in Ithaca, New York.

Roman ruins top white travertine terraces formed by ancient hot springs.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

Ancient and modern architecture are joined in Louis Kahn's monument to democracy.

An underwater restaurant, surrounded by a coral reef.

Marvel of green building techniques that sings with the wind.

Huge masonic hall in Philadelphia with lavishly themed rooms.

Light still pours into the ruins of this ancient Islamic observatory.