Places janepeytonjohnson Wants to Go

An abandoned asylum once on the cutting edge of lobotomies may be reborn as a Christian college.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

America's greatest forgotten garden and the former stomping grounds of Son of Sam.

Oldest existing church in New York and the inspiration for Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow."

A once grand hotel is being retaken by the wilderness it once capitalized on.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This abandoned cemetery is crumbling into ruin, exposing the artifacts and bodies buried there.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

Trimmed trees grow alongside the graves like topiary tombstones.

Miraculous tree that seems to sprout out of solid rock.

A museum on the history of Paris, including a set of Napoleon's toiletries, Proust's room, and relics of the Revolution.

One man's extraordinary topiary garden in a small South Carolina town.

An old trolley bridge was converted into a breathtaking garden bursting with colorful flowers.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

A bit of retro transportation flair preserved in the world's largest department store.

Brooklyn's Barkaloo Cemetery is the resting place of a scant two bodies.

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

This park contains a number of standing stones meant to heal and inspire.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.