Places joparkman Wants to Go

An amateur telescope-making club has been gathering at this Vermont site for more than a century.

A 60-foot-tall tower provides unparalleled views of the southern Green Mountains.

A cable-suspension footbridge that hangs high above the Mill River.

A beautiful, creepy 19th-century castle stands incongruously in rural Vermont.

This magnificent Japanese garden provides a moment of Zen in rural Vermont.

Resonating tubes make music from highway overpass.

This locally-famous crevasse in New York State is icy all year round.

A bedazzled house and crown "jewel" of outsider artist Loy Allen Bowlin.

A museum celebrating the self-taught artist-environment builder.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

Hidden in the New Mexico desert southeast of Roswell, nine small deep lakes formed inside sinkholes.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

This is one really big nut.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

The second-largest cave chamber in the world was discovered in 1898 by a 16-year-old and a friend known as "Pothead."

This steep slide at a kids’ playground went viral after an police officer tumbled down it.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

The history of the tea trade is told in bas-relief on this historic pair of Boston doors.

Beautiful steampunk ghosts of early Massachusetts.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

Radical Bookstore and Community Space.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.

Dim sum, served in a grand old theater.