Places hymeneinstein Wants to Go

Standing in a state of "arrested decay," this ghost town allows for a detailed peek into Gold Rush life in an unusually harsh climate.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

Tucked away amidst some of the most famous addresses in the world is New York’s only fraction of a street.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

These delicate buggers are some of the rarest fossils that have bubbled up from the Tar Pits.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

An encyclopedic collection of mammal penises.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A portable, wooden replica (minus the hyphen) of Hamburg’s iconic crooked coffee shop.

An outdoor sculpture park of giant pink robots and post-apocalyptic Christmas scenes.

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

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.