Places Sara Ewell Wants to Go

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

Giant busts of 42 U.S. presidents sit, crumbling in a field in Virginia.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

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

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

The world's longest known cave system.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

This whimsical Oz-themed park had a wonderful impact on the surrounding neighborhood.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

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

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.