Places SomePlaceCool Wants to Go

These black pillars of volcanic basalt seem to call mountain climbers with an unbreakable siren song.

A monument to the center of the North American continent may be off by a few miles.

The mysterious round rocks of Schooner Gulch.

One of New York's best collections of pinball is hidden in a secret bar in the back of this laundromat.

There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.

There must be a pun in this haystack somewhere...

This once-popular otherworldly landscape was formed by one of the largest volcanic eruptions in history.

Since World War II people have been decorating this stretch of the Yuma desert with signatures arranged out of rocks.

Semi-recognized center of the world, with many oddities.

The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.

This aluminum “stairway to heaven” has impaled at least a couple of birds.

This small shop walked so America could run on Dunkin'.

The oldest garden in Prague, once part of an medieval orchard.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

This desert oddity hides in plain sight thanks to a cartographic error and a desert explorer with a punny sense of humor.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

A Roman-style column in Oregon hides a spiral staircase inside.

A scandalous Art Nouveau collaboration that set Paris all atwitter at the turn of the 20th century.

One man's ambition created this psychedelic log home.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."