Places summermaddux Wants to Go

Alien rock formations grown from the sands of an Australian national park.

This towering sweet treat is big enough to share... with an entire city.

The famous red-and-white Campbell's Soup label beckons hungry passersby in Ohio.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

Stand on the rim of a dormant volcano and gaze across a vast ash plain frozen in time.

Anatomical cabinet holds unexpected treasures.

An otherworldly reserve of one of Earth’s densest volcanic fields and the world’s largest guanaco migration.

The world’s oldest active sailing ship.

The Yiddish language stages a renaissance in a shtetl-inspired cultural center on the San Diego coast.

The tiniest tiki room in San Diego.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

This volcanic crater lake is renowned for its perfectly round shape, stunning blue-green waters, and unique geological properties.

Not a single witness can attest to the creation of the world's largest geoglyph.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

The artist James Turrell is repurposing an extinct volcano crater as an observatory to experience the cosmos.

An earthwork sculpture built by Robert Smithson in the Great Salt Lake only reemerges during drought.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

This giant geoglyph of mysterious origins is now the site of neo-pagan rituals.

Quirky water tower advertises the long-gone Brooks Tomato Products Co.

The only Ottoman Mosque in Attica outside central Athens.

The recovered bones of martyrs slaughtered during The Terror are on display in this church crypt.