Places Ashley Bowen Wants to Go

A series of waterfalls and pools that flow through the 'Ohe'o Gulch and into the ocean.

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

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

A home built with marble tombstones from the graves of 2,200 Union soldiers buried in a Virginia cemetery.

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

This historic Rhode Island mini-cemetery features a number of headstones run through with mysterious holes.

The world's longest known cave system.

This lovely little pond is named after the hundreds of soldiers' corpses that were rolled into the waters during the French-Indian War.

Home on the Hillside, and home of the first breakfast cereal.

Once a place of peaceful repose, this sanitarium now faces an uncertain future.

One man's labor of love, Amman's oldest home has become a time capsule with its doors permanently open to artists and guests.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

This collection of unique liquids allows visitors to wander the waters of Iceland's glaciers.

Created by four famous men, the beautifully designed Buffalo State Asylum was resurrected as a hotel and art center, but still boasts a ghost story or two.

This mouldering abandoned mental hospital was once a center for progressive healing.

On the outskirts of a reborn ghost town, a decaying post office remembers the bad old days.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

The largest flower auction house in the world.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

Gilded heaven for philatelists and architecture freaks, still in full working order despite sitting atop tremulous ground.

The British monarchy's stamp collection is one of the most impressive in all of Europe revealing generations of royal nerdery.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Appropriation-friendly collection of books, periodicals, and more.