Places sarahvjanet Wants to Go

This African beach is home to thousands of rare mainland penguins that are known for their annoying voice.

Once close to extinction, there is no shortage of elephant seals on the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

Ancient pueblos built into the base of a natural canyon wall.

The largest stone moai on Rapa Nui.

Former laboratory of radical psychiatrist Wilhelm Reich.

In upstate New York, gorgeous waterfalls and a watermill are slowly being reclaimed by nature.

An abandoned castle owned and ignored by Masons carries a cursed history.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The lush coastal city of Astoria is riddled with forgotten secret sidewalks.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

Pink, packed sanctuary and home of the world's fullest-time Elvis fanatic.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

"The Most Wonderful Wonder that ever appeared to the Wonder of the British Nation."

The world's only known button museum.

The remains of a failed subway in upstate New York is now an underground graffiti bunker.

Futuristic apartment blocks are the backdrop for Montreal surfers hangin' ten on the Habitat '67 standing wave.