Places Aglatter Wants to Go

A small Chicago museum filled with thousands of preserved butterflies, beetles, and more.

Over thousands of years, this slot canyon was carved out of the bed of an ancient lake.

The southernmost postal office in South America.

This giant power line tower is a robot that can express its moods in neon.

A tower devoted to — and modeled after — the Divine Comedy.

This candy-colored storybook village originated as a 19th-century Methodist campground.

Statues of Ramona Quimby, Henry Huggins, and Ribsy the dog in the park where their adventures "really happened."

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

This bright yellow building is packed with sweet treats from all around the world, from chocolate-covered crickets to whoopie pies.

For posterity, a singular achievement: 3,780 hours of dancing.

This small, but beautiful waterfall has attracted visits from artists, composers, and two United States presidents.

These curious caverns have been home to mushrooms, gangsters, and disco.

Funhouse of found art and participatory sculpture.

The dishes at this restaurant by The Sioux Chef celebrate indigenous heritage.

20,000 pieces in a Frank Gehry-designed building.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

A warehouse for all of your architectural details.

An underappreciated sculpture garden just a few blocks from the capitol building.

Home to the Amorphophallus titanum "Corpse Flower," which is among the largest flowers in the world and also smells powerfully of rotting flesh when in bloom.

Sample sweets at an Art Nouveau candy shop that's been in business since 1874.

This warehouse-gallery-shop hybrid showcases Mexican craftwork at its best.

A Volkswagen Beetle decorated with millions of beads connects Mexico's past and future.

This art center located in a former hydroelectric plant uses native plants to create paper for kites, bags, jewelry, and more.