Places monicafrohn Wants to Go

A National Historic Landmark with a scenic clock tower and park filled with deer and peacocks, plus a military museum.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

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

An FDR-era tuberculosis sanatorium has stood abandoned in the suburbs of the U.S. capital for over 30 years.

These free-roaming horses were once destined to disappear from the land.

Lions and tigers and leopards, servals, pumas, bobcats, lynxes, and ocelots... oh my!

This hidden library of physiological ephemera contains centuries worth of knowledge on the vim and viscera of the human body.

Former farm staffed by mental patients is now a public park.

An unusual, super-sized grocery adventure awaits in an Ohio suburb.

The ruins of a cotton mill that was burned in the Civil War are still hidden in a Georgia forest.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.

An architecturally-focused antique shop.

A sculpture for the sun and stars, created by Nancy Holt.

This public space is speckled with the eerie remnants of a defunct amusement park.

This tiny New Jersey village has lived many lives but seems determined to remain a ghost town.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A recently abandoned psych ward at the end of Sanatorium Road.

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.