Places audrey Lee Wants to Go

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

The remains of a British railway rusting in the jungle mist of a Brazilian mountainside.

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

This Old Testament garden features 100 plants from biblical times.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

This dramatic landscape hidden on the Isle of Skye looks as though you've stepped into the magical realm.

Unusual hexagonal rocks formed by cooling lava named for their resemblance to traditional Japanese tatami mats.

A 19th-century subterranean reservoir repurposed as a contemporary art cave.

If you want to take a peek at Area 51, this is legally as close as you're going to get.

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

This incredible collection of vintage pinball machines can be played at 25 cents a pop.

Staircase winds down the side of Telegraph Hill through gardens, wild parrots flying overhead.

One small town in the Pacific Northwest transformed itself into a Bavarian-themed tourist destination.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

The yawning maw of this pagan visage is said to bite off the hands of liars.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A toxic ghost town sitting atop a massive coal fire.

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.