Places hegnerapril Wants to Go

Lady Liberty's first beacon of enlightenment is now displayed in a museum near the statue.

A New York garbage depot holds a secret collection of weird and wonderful refuse.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Bonsai trees that are up to a thousand years old.

One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

This grove of ghostly cedars was killed in 1700 by an enormous tsunami, felt from the United States to Japan.

This century-old confectioner's outlet store was plucked right out of the Seattle World's Fair.

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

This sound-art installation features songs composed using only the Mid-Hudson Bridge as an instrument.

The oldest continuously inhabited street in America.

This small museum is an eccentric shrine to boyhood in the 1960s.

Abraham Lincoln's vice president took his last breath here on July 4, 1891.

This handsome giant is said to mark the birthplace of the mythical woodsman and even had a cameo in a Stephen King novel.

Five mythical trolls have taken up residence in woods and hidden on paths at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens.

Built in the 1970s, this curious modular home found new life as a sundae-shaped ice cream stand.

Medieval museum built over Roman baths that features famous tapestries of a lady and a unicorn.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

An overlooked marble is the only surviving in-place 18th century example of the measurement that changed how we define distance.

This abandoned five-star hotel is now a five-star urban exploration destination.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.