Places alohacarmen Wants to Go

This lush 12-acre site was once named the finest Japanese garden in North America.

A historic and oft-filmed prison stands in a Chicago suburb.

This horror movie and monster shop is like if a haunted house was a retail store.

A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.

Arguably the best example of an authentic Dutch windmill in the United States, rivaling its counterparts in the Netherlands.

This elaborate Hindu temple is located in a Chicago suburb, but looks like it was transported directly from India.

An outlandish shoe shaped house built by an eccentric millionaire.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

A sprawling cave network created by a lone lava tube.

In the high desert east of Bend, the University of Oregon maintains a research observatory on a remote mountain peak.