Places thegirlwhoflies Wants to Go

Meet the world's longest tapeworm in a collection that really gets under your skin.

Rows of stone statues are dressed up to mourn children that are lost before birth.

A Buddhist temple on an artificial island that houses a monument to the fugu fish.

Iceland's only steampunk shop imagines a retro-futuristic world that never was.

This backwater graveyard in the Hamptons became a trendy burial spot and posthumous status symbol for famous artists.

Underneath the bustling city streets, a hydroponic farm grows unique herbs in an urban oasis.

A tiny museum housed in a New York freight elevator specializes in the "overlooked, dismissed, or ignored."

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

Make a tough dinner decision: Octopus wasabi roulette or bull penis?

The place where Dvořák composed some of his most famous works.

Have a steam and some blini at this cafe in a century-old bathhouse.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

Two New York rooftops are home to the largest rooftop soil farms in the world.

A hyper-luxurious, 12,000- square foot home might be buried beneath Queens, still waiting to protect you from nuclear missiles.

An easy to overlook storefront hides some of the most authentic and regionally diverse Chinese food in New York.

Read between the lines of the subway map to find the hidden abandoned Civil War fort.

A long abandoned hospital building on the outskirts of NYC.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

This picturesque Victorian ghost town was once a thriving mill community.

This petite park lets visitors see and touch examples of fossilized dinosaur tracks.

Amazing views of Long Island Sound can be seen from this mountaintop tower.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

You can get anything you want at the former site of the restaurant immortalized by Arlo Guthrie.