Places Ryshili Wants to Go

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

A collection of huge Pre-Colombian structures in Alabama.

The first space rock known to have struck a human.

These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.

One of the largest Buddhist communities in the West sits on the site of an old hospital.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

A working model of a pressure-driven, high-speed rail whizzes around a private vineyard.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

Experience Larry Spring's self-taught "common sense" laws of physics.

Celebrating the transformation of trash into objects of beauty.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A giant interactive periodic table with real samples of the elements.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

A unique spiral staircase that doesn't quite make it up to the top floor.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

The ornate structure is part of a building boasting more marble than the Vatican.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.