Places becka1313 Wants to Go

This New Orleans tree is filled with hidden chimes that produce a carefully tuned melody.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

This granite rock face is named for the magnificent reflection that occurs when the sun hits it just right.

A magical sinkhole on the Yucatán Peninsula is adorned with mini waterfalls and hanging vines.

Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.

Two men built this castle on the Florida coast as an artistic “landscape sculpture.”

This wondrous hideaway is suspended in a bamboo forest above a sanctuary for rescued llamas and alpacas.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

Like stepping into a spooky fairy-tale, this shop carries the dark ideas of artists and other makers.

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

This fairy tale-themed amusement park is now abandoned, and childhood metaphors abound.

The former locus of Boston's high culture has been shuttered and buried for over 70 years.

Site of a famous 19th-century transcendentalist utopian community, now abandoned.

19th-century operating theatre in which the use of ether was first demonstrated - plus, a skeleton and a mummy!

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.

America's first serial killer rests in anonymity.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

In this case, 'zero' marks the spot where the iconic Old Spanish Trail ends.

It's a pretty creepy lock-up.

An 18th-century Spanish watchtower made entirely of seashell and concrete.

A luxurious 1880s hotel with its fair share of Tiffany stained glass, Edison electricity, and of course, ghosts.

Strange beasts lurking in a garden are all that remain of a quirky, short-lived theme park.