Places Vaevin Wants to Go

This former coal gasification plant found a curious second life as a popular public park.

A rotting tree in the middle of Seattle doubles as an elaborately-controlled art piece.

This painted blacktop brings the classic arcade game to life.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

Spanning an elevation of 160 feet and containing 388 steps, this is Seattle's longest staircase.

A beautiful final resting place for some of the noteworthy deceased.

Couple's personal collection of pinball machines turned public pinball museum.

A Seattle oddities shop brimming with Victorian-era gems and antique curio.

In this subterranean brick arcade, a small shop continues the ancient practice of bookbinding.

The historic bar where local ship captains, traders, and gold miners would come together to do business a century ago.

The first park built over a freeway is a brutalist masterwork.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

This cavernous swimming spot doubles as a home to the largest known colony of bats in Central Asia.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

The world is full of swimming holes, but few compare to Samoa’s idyllic To Sua ocean trench.

There's a mini version of Iguazu Falls hidden in the Balkans, and it's got a rope swing.

A long-forgotten Victorian swimming hole is still a fun spot for a dip.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

A perfectly circular lake is formed by the crater of an ancient underwater volcano.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.