Places tristanpollock Wants to Go

Beyond being incredibly fun, not much can be said about the Hole with certitude.

An art collective teaching the more fiery, metal-y art forms.

A creepy steel gremlin has protected the Bay Bridge since 1989.

This conical hill was built as a testing ground for an engineer known as the Glider King.

This futuristic German spa allows visitors to float in a pool of salt water while zoning out to underwater techno.

An eerie, derelict amusement park in Berlin.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

This unauthorized stone mermaid was secretly carved out of public stone before being permanently preserved.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A large instrument played by the wind.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

An "anarchical" no man's land, complete with garbage sculptures and a hobo-run "Landfillian Library."

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

One of the most unusual geological features, recognizable from a dozen hit movies.

The abandoned personal amusement park of the King of Pop.

San Francisco Bay's ghost town.

Finale of "William Tell Overture" can be heard as drivers pass over grooves in the road.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

This electric green sulphur lake in New Zealand looks like a cartoonish radioactive dump site.

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

The Dalai Lama named this New Zealand landscape the "Spiritual Center of the Universe."

This replica stave church looks like a piece of Norway was simply plopped down in South Dakota.