Places rog18 Wants to Go

An homage to the humble watering can.

This elaborately decorated, fairytale-like Romanian royal palace is one of the most striking castles in Europe.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

This ambitious attraction was the brain child of a lake resort impresario, and built by the WPA.

This tree was extinct for a thousand years before sprouting again from a 2,000-year-old seed.

The gargoyles and grotesques of the 21st century are here—22 emoji built into a new building in the Netherlands.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The granddaddy of English geoglyphs dates back to the late Bronze Age.

The historic home still shows the scars from a little run-in with the British in 1813.

The site of a classic series of Laurel and Hardy pratfalls.

The site of the climactic scene from the classic horror film is now a historic landmark.

Hundreds of hidden passageways weave through the old quarters of Lyon.

Stairs often replace streets on the steep slopes of this old mining town.

A stairway to heaven, or to nowhere at all.

Bring your own cardboard to the slippery slopes of concrete hidden in a neighborhood park.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A pair of slides and a tree-lined stair corridor have been an urban oasis for nearly 40 years.

An artsy hidden staircase leads to breathtaking views of San Francisco.

Colin Stokes "got a bit carried away" and built a castle that looks like something out of Tolkien.

This lovely picnic spot featuring thunderous jet landings is an aircraft spotter’s dream.

A collaboration of art and ornithology mourns the calls of Sydney's lost birds.

Medieval irrigation channels built into the sides of mountains provided Valais with water for hundreds of years.

Believe it or not, the now-ubiquitous California avocado originated in Guatemala.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.