Places terimagdanz Wants to Go

This museum shaped like an inflating balloon celebrates the sport’s buoyant achievements.

On the edge of the Valles Caldera National Preserve, these rock formations create an eerie landscape.

A unique geological area spiked with wind-carved rocks that resemble teepees.

Life-sized sculpture of a blue whale made of hand-recycled plastic trash.

Wedding chapel's mysterious spiral staircase said to be miraculously constructed.

A small side chapel in Santa Fe's basilica is home to the oldest statute of the Virgin Mary in North America.

This giant pocket watch is the third iteration of a local landmark that has been standing just off the Santa Fe Plaza for over 100 years.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

An off-grid art installation that encourages its visitors to imagine a world without waste.

This abandoned Navy base was transformed into an off-grid alternative living community for thousands of people.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

The sea once considered an ecological wasteland is now called "crown jewel of avian biodiversity" by scientists.

Huge otherworldly domed rocks on the shore of a deadly lake.

At this deceptively beautiful beach, nothing is what it seems.

Burping, gurgling geothermal mud pots by the Salton Sea.

The world's only moving mud pot has left a path of destruction to local infrastructure

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.

World's largest collection devoted to one fruit.

A museum dedicated to a sea that should have never been.

Nationwide network of co-ownership underground catastrophe shelters.

A small space-exploration exhibit hidden in a hotel.

A collection of anti-communist sculptures stands watch in the Mojave Desert.