Places emiliejayne Wants to Go

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The oldest family-run luncheonette in New York, last renovated in 1948, still serves food and drinks the old-fashioned way.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The legendary building that needed ghostly approval before being built.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A treasure trove of artifacts, books, and artwork from the "golden age" of exploration.

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

A crumbling hospital from the 1850s on Roosevelt Island.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.