Places izzyturtle Wants to Go

The world's longest known cave system.

The haunting, dilapidated remains of a former poorhouse on Staten Island's Greenbelt.

Canyon walls shrouded in ferns.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

The gorgeous library at Trinity College is home to remarkable treasures of Irish identity.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

This unique structure in suburban Austin is made up entirely of other people's castaways, and constantly changing.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

A house filled to the brim with oddities and curiosities.

The Corinthian columns that towered over Abraham Lincoln’s inauguration stand proud.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.

An arsenic-filled pool in the Grand Canyon takes on the appearance of a giant, overflowing pumpkin.

Welcome to old Florida, where a 1940s mermaid show is still enchanting visitors.

New York City's smallest piece of private property.

One of the largest, oldest, darkest, quietest motel rooms in the world.

The feral felines of Roosevelt Island have a small army of allies and an abandoned hospital all to themselves.

A hip bar decorated with walls of golden skulls.