Places rlaurak Wants to Go

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

A muddy alien landscape that is home to rare species of exotic plants.

This massive underground salt mine now holds a sci-fi theme park in its depths.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

A whimsical bridge adorned with decorative dragons.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

This massive subterranean fissure is known as the "underground Grand Canyon."

This small Slovenian town has become a magnet for microbreweries.

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

A series of waterfalls so massive they straddle the border of Argentina and Brazil.

The celebrity luchadores of La Paz are tough ladies in traditional petticoats and braids.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

The legend associated with these ruins understates the splendor of the mansion that once stood here.

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

An alleyway plaque is all that remains of the independent Texas' envoy that forgot to pay their rent for over a century.

The world's brightest bioluminescent bay.

This tea house was a hand-built gift from Boulder's sister city in Tajikstan.

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

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

The oldest surviving bridge in New York City, which reopened to pedestrians in 2015.

A legendary speakeasy bookstore returns from the brink.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

A layered tribute to the work of mosaicist Isaiah Zagar.