Places Auroratorealis Wants to Go

Golden Gate Park's historic collection of plants.

Olfactory delights in San Francisco's Botanical Gardens.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

An art supply shop holds the secrets of this quiet neighborhood's raucous Barbary Coast past.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Florence’s mother built a stairway down to her daughter’s coffin so she could comfort her during storms.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

The summer home and later final residence of acclaimed American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

America's first public lending library began with a gift from Benjamin Franklin.

The world's newest astronomical clock is also its most accurate.

Learn about the sweet, storied legacy of beekeeping in ancient Greece.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

The quaint little store that is said to have inspired a famous Dickens novel was only given its name after the book was released.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

A historic neighborhood church is reborn as a psychedelic arts collective.

Mural made of 100,000 pieces of hand blown glass, and one of the largest glass murals in the US.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

An ancient capital city that dates back 3,000 years and harbors many surprises.

Tokyo’s only Vaudeville-cuckoo clock–steampunk-Victorian curio cabinet time piece.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.