Places joparkman Wants to Go

A small Second Empire-style building is one of only seven remaining lighthouses on the Hudson River.

More than 700 species live within this murky marvel of a swamp on California's coast.

South Philadelphia is home to Keith Haring's only surviving in situ collaborative public mural.

Dr Barnes' $25 billion private collection of art and arboretum.

A museum dedicated to the strange and extravagant costumes and memorabilia of the mummers, a tradition older than Philadelphia itself.

The oldest surviving botanic garden in the United States.

Enjoy a slice while browsing the world's largest collection of pizza memorabilia.

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

An abandoned cemetery lies in ruins as the surrounding forest swallows it whole.

The largest Jewish museum in the southeastern U.S. houses a permanent Holocaust exhibit emphasizing the strength of its survivors.

A hobby born from insomnia has turned into a hangar full of objects that have been be-buttoned by the Button King.

The sole remaining outpost of a once-thriving South Carolina chain still sells “pic-a-nic” baskets.

An old bank vault in Atlanta is now the eternal shrine to the King of Rock and Roll.

One of the only remaining vestiges of baseball's Negro Leagues in Atlanta.

An unusual art exhibition in a suburban yard is designed to awaken the souls of those flowing by.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

Antiques by the Bay.

This museum boasts the ninth-largest collection of insects in North America.

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

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

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

This whimsical seashell-shaped place of worship was designed to blend into its surroundings.

The oldest lighthouse on America's west coast no longer needs keepers, yet they maintain the site anyhow.