Places bibliophile22 Wants to Go

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

Manhattan’s Battery Park has a whimsical carousel full of spinning, glowing fish.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela's "Dream House" will immerse you in an ever changing world of sound and light.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

An unassuming 13-acre park is home to over 12,000 roses.

More than 500 unique and specially designed cases collected by D.C.'s "Harmonica Case Man."

While most wind tunnels test scale models, the "Cave of Winds" was large enough for actual airplanes.