Places canlarue Wants to Go

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

A memorial sculpture to heath hens stands on the spot where the last heath hen, Booming Ben, was last seen.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

Ohio's 19th-century communist micro-society.

Would you like a sleeper hold with that?

This museum offers an actual time machine back through Colorado's past.

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

One Confederate statue that accurately reflects the ugliness of its subject.

The largest cactus farm in Africa.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

A giant steel sculpture with animals in its shadows.

With 8,000 pipes this giant instrument is the most versatile theatre pipe organ ever built.

A little-known memorial to servicemen and nurses killed in the line of duty during the First World War.

A bronze ballot box stands at the spot where Susan B. Anthony voted illegally.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

Seven people are buried in the middle of what's now a movie theater parking lot.

New London, Connecticut still holds a grudge against its hometown son who turned traitor and burned the city.

Five million people are laid to rest here, more than the population of Madrid itself.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

A petroglyph map of the upper Snake River carved by prehistoric hunter-gatherers.