Places dmholtz Wants to Go

According to one local tradition, the entrance to the Voodoo underworld can be found in New Orleans through seven gates scattered throughout the city's French Quarter.

These Great Lakes sea caves accessible by boat in the summer turn into temples of ice reachable by foot in the winter.

A stone face watches over the river.

The arboretum whose marshy soil sucked up the dreams of housing developers.

This striking art museum holds an amazing series of curiosity cabinets.

A place to eat for on-the-run agents and espionage enthusiasts.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

The only Bahá'í house of worship in North America and one of only a handful worldwide.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

This freshwater spring fills with 10,000 gallons of water per minute.

Strange physical sensations and optical contradictions keep visitors coming back for more.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

What was once a presidential estate is now an exotic menagerie and home to the Budweiser Clydesdales.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A glimpse into the lives of the the Miwok and Paiute people in Yosemite National Park.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.