Places benjathom Wants to Go

Once the tallest building in the world and the site of “the highest dinner ever held in New York” this building now holds the most expensive penthouse in the city.

A folk-art cottage and hotel straight from a Slavic fairy tale.

Suspended above the ground in a thicket of towering Georgia trees is a modern architectural wonder.

Two well-hidden huts let animal lovers spend the night among the bears, wolves, and other predators of the forest.

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

The largest self-built castle in the U.S., six decades in the making.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

6th century Byzantine mosaics preserved on a hill overlooking Lake Ohrid.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

Once the most densely populated place in the world, this island is now a ghost town.

Surrounded by a hundred mile radius of billboards, Little America is a roadside attraction whose primary appeal is hospitality.

A family-run store in an 1892 pharmacy still slings old-fashioned sodas.

A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.

An ordinary rancher stumbled upon one of the world’s largest collections of Pliocene horse fossils.

One of nature's most well-scheduled phenomenons resides in Wyoming's Yellowstone National Park.

A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.

This geodesic gallery holds a collection of painted spheres that make traditional canvases look lazy by comparison.

Hidden behind Lincoln's head is a chamber containing enamel plates documenting American history, sealed in a teakwood box in a titanium vault.

Just a man taking his prehistoric pet for a stroll.

An ode to South Dakota's state fish.

Its 27 graveyards represent the many nationalities and ethnic groups that voyaged to this wilderness in the late 19th century.