Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

Giant origami sculptures tucked into desert scenery beckon passers-by to explore further.

A half-acre utopia in the New Mexico desert features a graveyard, a game of horseshoes, a library, and a mailbox.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This narrow canyon has been carved by the river over thousands of years into spectacular and curious forms.

A phenomenal assembly of pueblos in New Mexico is the most complete example of ancient ruins north of the border.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

The 1920s child prodigy author was last seen here at her Brookline home before vanishing at age 25.

This "little gallery in the middle of nowhere" is housed in a 170-year-old horse barn in the Missouri Ozarks.

Six tiny houses built for working class people form the largest intentional cluster of Wright homes anywhere.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

Hidden in a grotto 26 feet below Nottingham's oldest hotel, this stylish subterranean drinking den is notoriously hard to find.

Near Birmingham, England three and a half miles of top-secret tunnels housed a World War II “shadow factory” and a Cold War nuclear bunker.

A hidden tunnel leads to a medieval queen's shrine buried beneath a parking lot.

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

The house where Rudyard Kipling wrote 'The Jungle Book' is also the location of the first tennis court in Vermont.

Former abode of notable poet, complete with literary references and stories of ghosts.

Moss-covered sculptures fill this small Brazilian gorge.

A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.

One home in the historic strip hides secret compartments and the ghostly songs of long-gone canaries.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.