Places carofine Wants to Go

A Mexican Romeo-and-Juliet-esque legend has given this super-narrow alleyway a reputation for romance.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

Cherry blossom season comes early in this Japanese town where pink flowers line the streets and riverbanks.

A "haunted" landmark on the coast of Southern California.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A meditative space out of a fantasy story.

A hand-built folk art installation covered with messages of God's love.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

This Philly landmark has a giant butterfly pavilion, three floors of insect displays, and withstood a $40,000 heist.

The red crab exhibits one of the most spectacular migrations on earth, despite manmade obstacles.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

Though many were skeptical at first, these animal-specific routes across the Trans-Canada Highway have been a major conservation success.

A New England curiosity cabinet, one hundred years on.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

An idyllic swimming pool tells the tale of Hemingway's trouble with women.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.

An underwater statue of Christ blesses the coral reefs off Key Largo.

The saltiest lake in all of Crimea is also the pinkest of the pink and teeming with life.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.