Places HulaGirloftheEast Wants to Go

One of the world's tallest waterfalls wasn't revealed to the world at large until 2006.

The skeletons, demons, and corpses serve as a warning of the terrors of Buddhist Hell.

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.

An eerily charming collection of salvaged buildings and curios grown out of a family scrap business.

Mexico's first public cable car soars over the congested streets outside Mexico City.

Bubbling up from deep underground is the warm crystal clear water that fills the Warm Springs Pools, America's oldest spa.

With over 340,000 artifacts and counting, there is something for everyone, often called the "Smithsonian of the West."

The world’s largest work of glass art hides in this stunning Taiwanese subway station.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

You could be standing at the site of one of D.C.'s most fatal tragedies and not even know it.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

This abandoned psychiatric hospital once housed more than 4,000 patients in the middle of a quaint New England town.

An extensive, if one-sided, history of U.S. law enforcement's war on drugs.

This central Nevada cave is the spiritual home of ancient and enigmatic pictographs.

This beautiful ancient site is dotted with perforated sandstone pillars considered sacred by some Native American groups.

Mine your own precious stones.

A lion given to the prime minister somehow got stuffed and sent to Florida.

Possibly the world's oldest rug, this Egyptian relic is woven entirely from ancient cat hair and once carried a mummified human foot.

This large midwestern cavern features impressive rock formations and an underground waterfall.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

A stark reminder of the huge nuclear weapons plant that once stood on the site and its effect on the surrounding area.