Places daratheodora Wants to Go

This breathtakingly beautiful botanical garden is home to a mob of wonderful wallabies.

The first transatlantic wireless signal was received at this 17th-century fort.

This 19th-century sugarcane plantation is one of the most well-preserved estates of its kind, including its original quarters for enslaved laborers.

The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin was neighbors with Mark Twain while living in this Connecticut home.

The "possessed" house that inspired "The Haunting in Connecticut" book and movie.

Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.

Home of Philip Johnson, one of the 20th century's most influential architects.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

The world's largest rotating world.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

This memorial museum chronicles the apocalyptic destruction of the First World War.

This mechanical clock performs "Romeo and Juliet" in a Shakespeare-themed New Zealand town.

This facility has manufactured stunning tapestries for France's royalty ever since the 17th century.

These sea cliffs are an epic natural wonder.

A large collection of steam engines, organs, and fairground attractions.

These giant sculptures are supported by a bizarre menagerie of feet.

The world's largest underwater restaurant is submerged off the southern tip of Norway.

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

This stone tower in a small town's graveyard looks as though it would be more at home in a fairy tale.

The oldest surviving wood-frame building in North America is still in the family.

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

At the supposed instruction of Ben Franklin and Socrates, a Spiritualist believer intended to birth a mechanical messiah here.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.