Places asdonkar Wants to Go

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

A hidden alley in urban Baltimore is a haven for graffiti artists.

On Hilton Head Island this bronze King of the Sea rules all things briny—and lets you know if you’re late for lunch.

This huge 12-foot concrete moose on the coast of Nova Scotia is the grandest of the sculptor's giant creatures.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

A turn of the century building boasting some of the most beautiful art nouveau architecture in Prague.

Stay in your own little bubble.

In a city crazy for seashells this museum educates and amazes visitors using the wonder of cast-off exoskeletons.

The angel of death appears to weep black tears at this grave marker.

The whole of Maine's history with the salty little fish is packed into this tiny coastal museum.

A public park off the beaten path with a beautiful waterfall and 13th century Cistercian abbey.

This town named for the ancient God of War is home to fewer than a thousand people, but it's the birthplace of the Greek Revolution.

A geological oddity formed by two rivers carving out a mass of limestone on both sides.

Chicago's North Park Village was once the largest municipal sanatorium in the country.

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

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This hidden rooftop garden in downtown London offers a quiet respite from a bustling city.

It took more than 20 years and a sharp eye for one man to assemble this quirky collection.

Bangkok's men with dangerous jobs come here in search of protective talismans.

An abandoned early-20th-century boomtown sits within the Calico Rock city limits.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.