Places zenman Wants to Go

Along a California highway is a kind of Jurassic Park made of metal.

It's clear this abandoned Art Deco gem was no ordinary cleaners.

A memorial to the monk who set himself on fire to protest the persecution of Buddhists in Vietnam.

A backdoor to Machu Picchu that only the most foolhardy infiltrator would attempt to breach.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Giant granite sculptures representing family on the northern coast of Spain.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

A site where “the ravages of the war are more striking…than any other place in contemporary Spain.”

A landscape decorated with enormous skull sculptures.

Spanning the El Chorro gorge, this pathway used to be one of the most dangerous crossings in the world.

Once a bustling fishing port, this semi-ghost town is now more than 90 miles away from the shore.

Crumbling remnants of what was once a booming town full of silver.

A volcanic tunnel illuminated by natural skylights offers a shaded respite from the desert sun.

Sunset-colored dunes of volcanic ash make taking a poor photo impossible.

Ancient human, animal, and geometric figures drawn in the earth.

The crumbling remains of a 19th century fortess.

This little museum in the town where zombies were born celebrates the living dead.

The mortal remains of an estimated 70,000 people lie in the basement of a monastery in Lima, Peru.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

One of the ghostly stops along Route 66.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.