Places dcowan Wants to Go

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

A son's promise to his dying father in the form of a covered bridge filled with thousands of seashells.

Toy museum in a former tavern is the expression of one man's life pursuit of the aesthetic power of cartoon imagery.

A subterranean playground in an abandoned slate mine.

Thirteen trees representing the original thirteen colonies were planted with soil from historic Revolutionary battlefields.

One of the largest mechanical models of the solar system in the world.

This shop specializes in oddities and Victorian-inspired wonders.

The only theatre in the world constructed specifically for sound movement.

A popular winter vacation destination for migrating monarch butterflies.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Panoramic views of the city of New Haven and the Long Island Sound, with a side of history.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

A Spanish forest is filled with mysterious stone carvings.

A herd of 150 bison live on California's Santa Catalina Island and are at the heart of an ongoing debate between environmental protection and economic expansion.

This little-known, 35,000-specimen collection in Greece is a lepidopterist's dream.

A park full of outsider art, created by college students studying outsider art.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.