Places Cowshow Wants to Go

At a rest stop north of Seattle, the trunk of an ancient tree.

Four abandoned towers hidden above the Douglas fir forest in Washington.

A rare tour of a commercial jet assembly plant, held inside one of the largest buildings in the world.

"The Reptile Man's" very own roadside zoo features an albino alligator.

Peruse rare tomes like poetry bound in pearls or books with branches and berries growing out of their spines.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

A Victorian garden in a harsh climate at the border of the prairies and foothills of the Canadian Rockies.

You can find more than 200 species of tropical plants at this garden owned by a former ambassador.

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

An oasis of beauty, tranquility and botanical research in the middle of Rome.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

The ghost town left by the worst nuclear disaster of all time is being taken over by nature and urban explorers.

A Cold War atomic camp buried under the ice is now emerging because of global warming.

Two giant painted cooling towers make for one of the world’s most epic bungee jumps.

One of the most poignant ruins of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, the local football team's stadium has been quickly reclaimed by nature.

An abandoned underground bunker not far from downtown New Orleans.

A huge Soviet-era robotics factory in the outskirts of Prypiat, now long-abandoned.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

This urban park is home to monkeys and a number of endangered plants.

This 16th-century cemetery became a recreational park during the Soviet occupation—today it's a little bit of both.

Thousands of graves lurk below the surface of this park.

A city park that sits on top of a freeway.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

Known as Manila's "last lung," this park used to house a market, garrison, and various government buildings.