Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

"World's largest scrap metal sculpture" stands in an outdoor sculpture garden in the middle of Wisconsin.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

The remains of a failed attempt at medieval nerdery are hidden deep in the woods of Virginia.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

Once in a state of dilapidation, this candy-inspired fortress is now being revived.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.

This hilltop park offers magnificent views and a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece.

Outposts of this restaurant chain were shaped like jaunty chapeaus.

This oceanside Reykjavik spot is speckled with recycled sculptures and large stones.

Cairns built to bring travelers good luck stretch across the land like miniature stone mountains.

A charmingly eccentric magma chaser presents his complete history of the island's eruptions since 1947, in cinematic form, just for you.

A modern Nordic Pompeii on the Icelandic island of Heimaey.

A giant red chair bolted to a rock on a remote mossy hillside in Iceland.

This natural rock formation features seemingly unnatural vertical ridges that have been blamed on elves.

Travel deep inside of Europe's second largest glacier in the world's largest man-made ice cave.

This secluded Iceland farm holds the collected works of one rural sculptor's creations.

The bright red stripes streaking across the rocks are the star feature at this Icelandic waterfall.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

Iceland: home to volcanoes, waterfalls and, apparently, Santa?