Places sarahltait Wants to Go

The master of westerns can be found in...the coastal city of Portland?

A bare tree in Riga’s Esplanāde is transformed into an extraordinary vertical neighbourhood by scores of colourful bird nesting boxes clustered across its trunk and branches.

In the 19th century, this pit housed a fully grown black bear for the entertainment of visitors. Today there is a sculpture in tribute to the poor creature.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

The spot where the namesake of the Douglas fir met his mysterious end on a Hawaiian volcano.

A scenic overlook of a pit mine hundreds of meters deep filled with blue water.

The pits used to load the nuclear bombs onto the aircraft that dropped them over Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

Hunt for buried treasure in Nova Scotia.

Inky sludge oozes to the surface of this beach thanks to a rare natural tar seep.

Where Stoddart and Connolly suffered in the infamous Bug Pit.

Once home to a local bear named "Bruno."

New fungal and bacterial species call this deadly lake home.

This open-pit mine is now an abandoned symbol of Bisbee's copper-mining heritage.

The perfectly named cave drop is the deepest in the continental United States, almost matching the height of Seattle’s Space Needle.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

This 329-acre nature park is Lake Washington's largest remaining wetland ecosystem.

Neither Spanish settlers nor anyone since has been able to tell who built these strange California rock walls.

The spirit of an executioner is said to cause cars to roll uphill in this English forest.

Things seem to roll, flow and run uphill on this short patch of road near Ariccia, Italy.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

When you get to Magnetic Hill park near the sign, put your vehicle in neutral gear, and watch it roll uphill...

A place where the laws of nature seem to have gone completely berserk... but of course haven't.