Places tomod05 Wants to Go

Because sometimes the most efficient route from A to B isn't a straight line.

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

This ancient village and its adjoining cemetery have a beautiful history of death and remembrance.

This beautifully deceptive waterfall is something far different from what it appears to be.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

This bug-eyed water wheel uses the power of the Sun to clean up Baltimore Harbor.

Giant sand sculptures of famous people and places are on display near the Tottori sand dunes.

An enigmatic modern marker left next to a historic Roman site.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.

An architect transformed this abandoned cement factory into his castle-like workshop.

A disconnected rotary phone for "calling" lost loved ones offered a unique way of dealing with grief in disaster-stricken Japan.

Martin Bricelj Baraga's monolithic sculpture measures the blueness of the sky, and changes color to match it.

These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.

The hollow trunk of this 650-year-old tree was used as a hideout by two Jewish brothers during World War II.

This lake in northwest Iran has started turning from green to red more frequently than scientists are comfortable with.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

Mussolini gave Cincinnati a bronze statue of Romulus and Remus suckling at a wolf's teats.

Lima’s Museum of Anthropology is lined with thousands of elongated human craniums.

One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

Beautiful Victorian buildings from L.A.'s forgotten architectural past.

Long-forgotten artifacts give incredible insight into New York's most glamorous hotel.