Places Amalia Wompa Wants to Go

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

The attic and basement house two museums stuffed with oddities like swallowed spoon handles and a shrunken head.

Stay at this storybook estate, featuring Sir Henry Hudson Kitson's masterpiece "Gingerbread House."

A vast array of tropical plants collected by a vacationing couple.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Historical structures and natural wonders await visitors to this preserve.

This collection of Japanese luck idols beckons visitors with over 2,000 waving paws.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

Once home to over 8,000 exiled Hawaiians suffering from Hansen's Disease.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

No one messes with the Massachusetts sacred cod, not this time...

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

One of the last remaining World War II Victory Gardens in the U.S. is quietly growing across from Fenway Park.

The often-overlooked ruins of one of the first buildings designed by famous landscape architect Frederick Olmsted.

Ralph Waldo Emerson spent two years living here decades before it became a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

This national landmark is also home to a massive treehouse.

An underground blaze turned this village into a ghost town.

The only geyser in the state of Pennsylvania is caused by pressure from an abandoned coal mine outside of the ghost town Centralia.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

The abandoned coal loading dock is a canvas for unsanctioned art.

The graffitied ruins stand hidden within the Pennsylvania woods.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.