Places Scott Mansfield Wants to Go

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

The sprawling, eccentric estate of Ames and Ames, a brilliant botanist, and a genius inventor and artist.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A health museum containing a 27’’½-foot intestine.

Artist James Turrell's ode to dawn and dusk on the campus of Rice University.

This open-air mosaic gallery honoring an English artist took hundreds of volunteers more than seven years to create.

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

A rare example of an ancient Japanese hill castle believed to be the fortress of a legendary demon.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

A museum dedicated to the famous Mexican illustrator's iconic calaveras.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

This 19th century hydroelectric powerhouse was the first of its kind.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

The modest home of the very immodest dancer who cost a king his crown.

The oldest badlands in North America, Makoshika State Park takes it name from the Lakota words for broken land.

Home of the "true" equator.

The artwork mysteriously appeared within an Edinburgh cemetery.

An exotic jungle hideaway run entirely by indigenous Kichwa women.

BDSM, 1930s Style.

The Louisiana sandwich shop that served Bonnie and Clyde's last meal is a museum that chronicles the criminal couple and honors the Bienville Parish lawmen who stopped their crime spree in an ambush.

Mysterious Incan ruins on a tiny island in Lake Titicaca.