Places zenman Wants to Go

Ancient Greek oracle of the dead.

An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.

This one-block alleyway is stuffed with street art that is colorful, cultural, and intensely political.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A museum befitting the city responsible for supplying the majority of the world's LSD.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

This ancient Hindu temple is covered in thousands of colorful statues and has a long mythological history.

Megalithic monuments resembling magic mushrooms.

Bold contestants slide in a rice paddy behind two charging bulls.

This garden among the Florentine hills is complete with a meditation path and works of poetry.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

A retired schoolteacher in suburban Nevada transformed his front yard into a paleontological menagerie.

Reclaimed material from a convent destroyed by cannonfire was used to build parts of this 19th-century cemetery.

The last SR-71 ever constructed.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

One of the most popular megalithic sites in Ireland stands as a humbler version of Stonehenge.

The eerie remains of one of Ireland's oldest castles, said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who brings ill fate.

Since 1887, this old-school shop has stacked its shelves with extraordinary coffees and teas.

An abandoned Victorian-era amusement park is rusting away amidst luxury houses.

The "Fun Spot of the Desert" is now a haunting ruin, and a reminder that putting a water park in a desert is a bad idea.

Built in the early 70s, the ruins of dinosaurs are all that remains of a man’s dream to build a free dinosaur themed mini golf course

A gardener's enduring labor of love is spread throughout a small Vermont town.

The final resting place of one of the United States's greatest poets.