Places rsowton Wants to Go

Plundered and left asunder by grave robbers, this ancient necropolis has been painstakingly pieced back together.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

A ruined Maya city that suffered a years-long case of mistaken identity.

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

The history of occult science is turned into a creepshow at this lurid Prague tourist attraction.

Two stunning 17th-century libraries and a cabinet of curiosities.

This open-air museum filled with 19th-century buildings offers a unique view of historic craftsmanship.

This outsider art house has gone from clinical creation to astounding artwork.

These 12th-century catacombs carved into a mountainside were a place of mysticism and Christian hermitages.

Terrifically morbid cemetary and site of famous Paracelsus' grave.

A once grand hotel now sits eerily abandoned in the Catalan countryside outside Barcelona.

Barcelona's historic 19th-century sewers, whose foundations were laid in medieval times, are open to the public for exploring.

Bask in the 19th century grandeur of an eccentric Freemason millionaire's private gardens.

Step inside the first house designed by Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, considered to be one of the first Art Nouveau buildings.

This cemetery features modernist statues as strange as its name.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The illuminated falls are a gem in North Cascades National Park.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.