Places Cara Giaimo Wants to Go

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The world's smallest park was dedicated in 1948 as the only colony for leprechauns west of Ireland.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

What looks like a crashed Zeppelin is actually a bright, airy reading room perched atop a modern museum.

A botanically themed auditorium blooms within the world’s last operating double-decker theater.

This Croatian computer club features such gaming relics as the infamous Virtual Boy and an 8-bit Pacman machine.

This memorial pyramid marker honors one of the United States Government's first official camel riders.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

In the remote high desert of New Mexico, a strange array of poles beckon fury from above.

Gorgeous purple flowers drape from the world's largest blossoming plant.

This salad has two key ingredients: hearts of palm and green ice cream.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

The crown jewel of the Queens Museum is a nearly 10,000-square-foot architectural model of the city originally built for the 1964 World's Fair.

One of America's first dinosaur parks gives a window into Depression-era paleontology.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

In this Parisian garden's grotesque former life as a zoo it fed exotic animals to the bourgeois and put humans on exhibit.

The first green space constructed on an elevated viaduct.

A surrealist timepiece by the artist of melting clocks.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

A roadside shrine to a late rock god only remains thanks to the unyielding efforts of his fans.

A white oak with property rights.

Twin Peaks' real life Double R Diner has been restored to its damn fine television look.

Shop the world's largest number of ice cream flavors, ranging from delightful to downright bizarre.

A wonderfully strange collection of 500+ stuffed frogs doing people things.