Places Amalia Wompa Wants to Go

Once the world's largest reinforced concrete structure, this abandoned bridge now beckons urban explorers.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

Ride the subways of yesteryear.

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

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

Home to an endangered salamander, a full moon celebration, and a large spring-fed outdoor swimming pool.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

Taxonomy experiment known for quirky collections.

Inside this community-run museum, visitors are treated to the history of toys and games.

This "common-as-dirt" museum celebrates the glory of normalcy.

One of the largest collections of wildlife art in the United States, built into the side of a cliff in rural Wyoming.

An architect's childhood fantasy treehouse made real.

Around half a million years ago, these magnificent columnar basalt cliffs were formed from cooling lava.

No Gordon Lightfoot song, only a barebones monument to greed.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

On a small island, a replica of a Finnish village from the Iron Age.

A subterranean house of worship carved right out of the bedrock.

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

This narrow shop in the East Village hosts a matchmaking service for the new millennium.

This Dutch Colonial home is the oldest remaining farmhouse in Manhattan.