Places joparkman Wants to Go

With some 500,000 books across five buildings, this bookstore is a reader's paradise.

The ancient past meets the retro-future at these dinosaur tracks that are protected by a geodesic dome.

The former home of Samuel Clemens and family remembers the happiest period of the author's life.

Ruins of a historic medical facility sits eerily by the water.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

An archival collection of over 2,200 case studies which includes human brain specimens and tumor specimens.

A wunderkammer hidden on the top floor of the Hartford statehouse.

A religious-themed park filled with folk art to bring biblical stories to life that fell into disrepair and now being restored.

Yale University's home for rare works, including the mysterious Voynich Manuscript.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Stay overnight in the world's most sleekly designed rabbit hole, free of charge.

The grounds of former plantations where abolitionist Harriet Tubman spent her youth enslaved are now a museum to her incredible life.

The second-tallest water tower shaped like a peach in the American South.

In 1810, free people of color made up more of New Orleans's population than any other Southern city.

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.

Young Emmett Till's tragic story, which sparked America's civil rights movement, is retold near the site where it occurred.

A thin pane of glass keeps visitors from sliding off this futuristic skywalk.

One of the most breathtaking railways in Europe also takes one of the steepest climbs, from fjord to mountain plateau.

The convergence of two currents makes this a surprisingly pleasant getaway in the Arctic Circle.

A remarkable geological formation resembling a forest made of stone.

White llama terraces dazzle in Peru's "other Machu Picchu."

A colorful Peruvian city of the dead.

A jungle cave in Peru of unknown depths, otherworldly sounds, and strange nocturnal birds that navigate by echolocation.

The remains of what was the most important religious complex in coastal Peru for over a millennium.