Places zenman Wants to Go

Instead of faces, these sculptures have barcodes—statements on societal dehumanization.

This park in Nagarkot boasts one of the best views in all of Nepal.

A grove of "candelabra redwoods" deep in California's Lost Coast.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

The spot where Parvati convinced Shiva to marry her, has become a pilgrimage site for married and unmarried women.

A New Hampshire grave with a grudge.

This phallic temple was erected in the forest to honor the tragic death of a samurai lord's son.

In the woods of New Jersey lie the ruins of a munitions village abandoned after World War I and the remnants of a 1920s wooden racetrack.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

Templar knights fleeing persecution are said to have left this sword in stone as a landmark in 1307.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

Fortifications built for a Soviet invasion that never came now sit abandoned in a losing battle against nature.

This churchyard arbor is surrounded by hundreds of gravestones placed there by author Thomas Hardy.

This lighthouse was crafted as penitence for the theft of wine bound for a monastery.

Legend has it that any woman who kissed this statue would soon be married.

These mystical miniature houses bring a touch of magic to the New Jersey woods.

The abandoned train depot now doubles as a well-placed rest stop for those who take the road less traveled.

Salt is slowly eating away this abandoned saltworks town in the desert.

A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

This Kathmandu museum, built in an Austrian modernist style, looks like a set from Star Wars.

One of the largest Buddhist stupas in the world keeps an eye out in every direction.

This representation of Lord Vishnu is the largest stone sculpture in Nepal.

One North Dakota man's vast collection of rare rocks, polished orbs, and geological wonders.