Places Juliana Wants to Go

A regular looking rock with an unbelievable history.

The enormous 250-room Vanderbilt mansion conceals hidden doors and secret passageways.

This enormous sinkhole hides a secret world created from divine wrath.

A remnant of the last Ice Age, this lake is surrounded by fascinating rock formations.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

This stretch of beach along California's central coast is a busy highway for the largest seal in the northern hemisphere.

The unbelievably opulent home built for an infamous newspaperman.

A house built from trash known as the poor man's Hearst Castle.

Cambria's most unique B&B features creative surroundings and fantastic food.

With its peeling paint and faded sign, this theater-turned-recycling plant is a nostalgic relic of 1950s Americana.

360-degree virtual reality chamber physically immerses scientists into their data.

Hidden in the Santa Ynez Mountains off Highway 154, this tiny restaurant once served as a stagecoach stop.

This house is a mosaic of tiled artwork sourced from local artists.

At 130 years old and 126 feet tall, it is the largest known example of the rare Torrey pine tree.

Happy harbor seals frolic and snooze on this warm, sandy stretch of coast.

Coastal dunes, site of buried Egyptian movie set and former utopian colony.

Named after the German word for "a longingness to travel," this park brings together thousands of city and street signs from around the world.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

A whimsical, punny collection of "fence art" outside the tiny mountain town of Baker, Nevada.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

This crumbling stump is all that remains of what was once thought to be the oldest living organism.

One of the notorious Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's many summer retreats.

Thanks to its heroic service during WWII this Soviet castle has been turned into a monument towered over by a brutalist titan.

Feral cats keeping the rodent population at bay all across Greenpoint waterfront.