Places jacksonhotaling Wants to Go

A trail weaves through the verses of a poem illustrated by stone sculptures inspired by Native American pictographs.

This small New York museum examines Chinese history from its origins right up to its arrival in the city.

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

Tucked away between two 19th-century buildings, this small shop specializes in the macabre.

Wander among the ghostly ruins of an island where civilization flourished for thousands of years.

A fake block of cheese remembers a feat of dairy engineering from the Chicago World's Fair.

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

This former county courthouse was originally an opulent hotel and entertainment venue.

Not everything is bigger in Texas.

The grave of the legendary "Bonzo" can often be seen covered in cymbals and drumsticks.

When in Idaho, sleep in a giant potato.

The powerful party began with a secret meeting in this shikumen in 1921.

China's most famous acrobatics act.

A library where thousands of books explain how to avoid another Great Recession.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

For 150 years one family has been producing the iconic hot sauce on a bayou island made of salt.

A brass plaque dedicated to a convicted cannibal hangs in the National Press Club, and that's not even the craziest part of the story.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

A literally moving statue of stacked metal giants just continually trying (and failing) to find love.

A hollowed-out baobab that became the horrific final resting place of leprosy sufferers, with gruesome evidence to prove it.

In its continuing quest to recreate famous parts of the world in miniature, China now has its own ghost Paris.

China's very own Atlantis is an ornate dynastic city resting at the bottom of a lake.