Places AdrianneOD Wants to Go

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A pair of giant roadside arrows are all that remains of a former Route 66 trading post.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

A museum and tribute to a brave profession.

The 40-foot-tall votive candle is the largest of its kind.

The only museum dedicated to the history of the "Magic Lantern," a medieval slide projector.

A popular swimming hole that hides one of America's most deadly diving spots.

Modern technology and live displays tell the story of the Pacific during WWII for the Internet generation.

A recreated Stonehenge stands in a country field, complete with Easter Island moai heads standing as sentries.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

A nursery specializing in strange and beautiful succulents and cacti.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The world's first permanently occupied mountain-top observatory continues to report on the stars.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

A hidden subterranean installation offers a view of the sky.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

Depicting scenes of everyday life - and specific individuals - in Great Depression era San Francisco.

A large instrument played by the wind.

Tenacious mummies survived dental problems, eternal entombment, and more than their fair share of devastating fires.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.