There are plenty of places I hope to visit during the remainder of my journey in this world, including Rome, St. Petersburg (Russia, not Florida), and Auschwitz, the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., pandas in a zoo anywhere (I’ve tried, they are inevitably sick or indoors or anywhere but the place I can see them!) and Rodin’s The Kiss (same problem as the pandas and there are three different copies I’ve tried to find in Stanford University, Paris, and London).

Perhaps the most unusual place on my list is a piece of art itself: Walter De Maria’s Lightning Field (1977). Somewhere in New Mexico (the exact location seems to be a secret, although I wonder if Google satellite could be used to locate it . . . ) is a field one mile wide by one kilometer long with 400 lightning rods arranged in a grid. To view the work, you make arrangements to spend a night at shelter on the property. If a lightning storm happens upon the place, visitors can see the work at work, but from what I have read the field is pretty interesting to walk through even without a storm. Read more about the piece and how to visit here. I first learned about it in an art history class, but have since read about visits in other articles as well.