Places Taggaul Wants to Go

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

Hoodoos, naturally eroded land formations, stand 20 feet tall in the Canadian Badlands.

In Tucson a giant metal snake helps pedestrians cross a busy highway.

A little church on a tiny island looks like something from a fairy tale.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

This remote island village was in danger of depopulating completely until a tunnel was built to connect it to the rest of the world .

The famous artist couple lived and worked here, in two different houses connected by a bridge.

While it is not equipped to peer into outer space this observatory looks like it was built on the moon.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

Baroque celebration of the end of the Great Plague of Vienna.

A valley of unique erosion patterns lends to a view like nothing on Earth.

A unique collection of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and everything in-between.

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

Hidden deep in the Guatemalan jungle is a turquoise paradise of natural pools, caves, and waterfalls.

A collection of more than 12,000 shoes, displayed in a building shaped like a shoebox.

Bizarrely shaped rock formations in northwest Bulgaria come with equally bizarre legends.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

Where the Great Wall of China meets the sea.