Places ckoohle Wants to Go

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Nine Gardens in one—with tea service.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

The 953 windows undoubtedly make this the world's most beautiful screened porch.

Australian Lake set aglow by Noctiluca Scintillans.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

New Orleans' famous cemetery, located on the site of a former race track.

A storybook European village in Berkeley.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This Irish show cave is said to have been the site of a Viking massacre that claimed 1,000 lives.

An abandoned village that doubled as "The Hunger Games"' post-apocalyptic wasteland is up for grabs.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

A castle built by an eccentric medieval enthusiast in suburban Ohio.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

One of the oldest scientific gardens in Britain, containing more than 13,302 plant species in its core collection.

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

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.