Places joparkman Wants to Go

One of Canada's oldest museums, the beautiful Redpath has been serving up Natural History and Ethnography since 1882.

This series of landscape dioramas tell the story of New England forestry in exacting miniature detail.

One of the world's largest collections of rare and magnificent bird specimens.

Bug-devouring flora are the stars of a special wing of the glass conservatory.

Colorado Boulevard’s historic bookstore, operating since the bustling city of Pasadena was merely some orange groves and a few ostrich farms.

A gorgeous gem on the ocean.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

A beautiful waterway tucked in the corner of a power plant.

Massive industrial-chic coffee shop housed in former 1970s-era Bank of Guam building.

The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.

This narrow coastline trail through the dense Kauai wilderness is among the most beautiful and dangerous in the world.

Submerged lava formations create incredible waterworks.

A local pineapple cannery once dumped pineapple trimmings off of this pier, with sometimes smelly results.

Now a pedestrian bridge, this was once part of a narrow-gauge railroad that ran along the east coast of Kauai.

This monument built by Japanese American immigrants spent decades underground.

A burial ground for workers at one of Hawai'i's largest sugarcane producers that laid buried for decades.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

An historic, one-lane, pedestrian suspension bridge on Kauai.

This ruined fort and statue are a testament to the last king of Kaua‘i’s savvy diplomacy skills, which briefly brought Russians to Hawai‘i.

This blowhole is supposedly caused by a trapped monster.

A prehistoric landscape hidden in the cliffs of Maha'ulepu.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

Hidden behind a YMCA stands the remains of a ceremonial site that dates back hundreds of years, whose ground is still considered sacred to many Hawaiians.