Places CuriousMichele Wants to Go

An alluring, arid botanical garden home to a bewildering variety of cacti both endangered and common.

These Victorian era devil sculptures were designed to spite a local vicar.

An unfinished rail tunnel that has since been used to house cheese and bats.

The world's only teal arches exist in a city that cares more about its aesthetic than an Instagram influencer.

This bakery sits on the site of the Black Panther Party's first headquarters.

In what is rumored to be an intentional act of spite, this memorial almost completely obscures the nearby grave of a senior officer.

This rooftop sign has been confusing Milwaukee-bound airline passengers for decades.

From working out of his garage to the James Beard semifinals, one Tucson baker has kept his fan base—and his grains—local.

A Stockholm metro station is home to an escalator that is not only the longest in Sweden, but among the longest in the world.

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

This historic hub for labor unions has survived the city's changing landscape.

Once a thriving business district, this former shopping area is now an urban ghost town in the heart of the city.

The entrance to an early 20th-century cultural center features murals that deal with the cultural fusion that characterizes Mexico.

Series of storm drains connected to a dark urban legend.

One of the most extensive and well-preserved collections of dinosaur footprints in North America.

The graffiti-covered ruins of an abandoned trading post in the middle of the Navajo Nation.

Dogs, cats, horses, monkeys, frogs, and fish are laid to rest at the second-oldest pet cemetery in the U.S.

The location of Puerto Rico's first water bottling plant, thanks to a collaboration between Mother Nature and technology.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

A haunted hot springs hotel that went from healing retreat to asylum before it was restored.

An abandoned relic of the city's failed experiment with below ground transit.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

A Beaux-Arts triumph rises from decades of decay to become the heart of a new innovation district.

The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.