Millbrook, New York
Innisfree Garden
This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Millbrook, New York
This once-private estate is now a dreamy, meditative garden that's open to the public.
Philipsburg, Montana
A little-visited ghost town state park offers a glimpse into Montana’s "Silver Queen."
Pacific Grove, California
Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.
Boulder, Montana
This off-the-beaten-path abandoned town is a relic of Montana's silver mining boom.
Euclid, Ohio
This abandoned bridge to nowhere stands secluded in the woods of a Cleveland suburb.
Arsi, Ethiopia
Ethiopian standing stones featuring remarkably preserved carvings of swords and people.
Mauritania
A geological bull's-eye visible from outer space.
East Lyme, Connecticut
With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.
West Chester, Pennsylvania
This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
These ruins are all that's left of the former Alabama State Capitol.
Dripping Springs, Texas
An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.
Santa Barbara, California
This stunning sea creature-shaped home blends into the landscape like a fantasy villa.
Hebron, New Hampshire
This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.
Ogdensburg, New Jersey
Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.
Mount Bethel, Pennsylvania
This huge, disused viaduct is now a crumbling concrete underworld of covered in years of graffiti.
Alnwick, England
The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”
Cincinnati, Ohio
What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?
Vicksburg, Mississippi
A four-hour holy-rolling, Hallelujah-shouting, Southern gospel service, rendered as a country market where "All Is Welcome, Jews, and Gentiles."
Iceland
This fairytale-like structure is the last turf church ever constructed in Iceland.
Reykholt, Iceland
Inside this Icelandic greenhouse, geothermal energy keeps tomatoes warm and growing.
Rosendale, New York
This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.
Pawling, New York
The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.
Dover Plains, New York
This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.