Places Emily Sue Wants to Go

Around 100 sculptures from artists all over the world decorate the hiking trails surrounding this locale.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

America's oldest archaeological site or a muddled case of wishful thinking.

Restaurant in a 1741 farmhouse that touts the story of its haunting on its menus.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

A stone memorial erected for New Hampshire's only convicted witch.

The 100-year-old public collection of a New Hampshire dentist that contains taxidermy, Native American artifacts, and a pair of mummy hands.

The largest arcade museum in the world chronicles the golden age of video games which ended promptly in 1987.

The New England cabin where an infamous British occultist conducted experiments in "magick".

Otherworldly rock formations and ancient fossils abound in this unique stretch of Nebraska badlands.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

Holy Hindu shrine in an enormous, monkey-filled limestone cavern.

Malaysian fireflies create a dazzling display as thousands light up in unison.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.