Places cait7911 Wants to Go

Each spring this woodland floor is carpeted with purplish flowers as far as the eye can see.

A hundred-year-old museum filled with giant physics toys and experiments designed by grad students.

A seven-story 1920s mausoleum outside Denver houses thousands of remains.

A relic of medieval punishment marks the center of this quintessential English village.

One of the last refuges of the endangered eastern lowland gorilla.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

New York's southernmost subway station is whimsically wavy.

The place where Samuel "Slater the Traitor" brought the Industrial Revolution to America.

The Midwestern United States' tribute to Michelangelo is a foam statue sprayed with gaudy gold paint.

Though dynamited and defaced, the statue still stands outside the law courts in Georgetown, Guyana.

Cherokee alphabet, proof of ancient North American Jews, or just a hoax?

Spiral-bound community recipes and antiquarian gems mingle at this small East Village shop.

A mysterious inscription may hold a clue about the "Lost Colony" of Roanoke.

This resort community was known as the "Black Eden of Michigan."

Transport yourself to the 1980s era of video games at this themed restaurant and bar.

The most remote tree in the world is more than 170 miles from its nearest neighbor.

A mural in rural Georgia welcomes visitors to a fictional Missouri town.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The fantastic charm of England's oldest botanical garden has made it a place of writerly inspiration for centuries.

The airport was once a Civil War battleground, and the earthwork defenses can still be seen today.

Some 2,000 carvings show this rare desert spring has been an oasis for travelers for over a thousand years.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

With its webbed walls and bright red coloring, Calgary's iconic bridge looks like a finger trap puzzle stretched across the river.