Places juliamachulski Wants to Go

Twelve hundred stone carvings guard this off-the-beaten-path Buddhist temple.

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

America's first public mental health facility.

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

America's most famous museum of medical oddities is home to the remains of Albert Einstein's brain.

Thomas Jefferson's estate is home to hundreds of varieties of historic fruits and vegetables.

A stunning garden filled with fantastical environmental folk art and sculptures.

Volcanic stone sentinels stand watch at a Korean Bell Garden in Virginia.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

A wonderous place devoted to art and metal.

Hidden within an idyllic suburban garden is a memorial dedicated to the victims of a terrifying spree of killings committed on U.S. soil.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

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

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

Where America’s first doomsday cult awaited the end of the world.

A beloved horticultural oasis on the grounds of a wealthy family's former estate.

This little-known Revolutionary War fort is supposedly haunted by the ghosts of its past.

North America's oldest quarantine facility was built in response to Philadelphia's 1793 yellow fever outbreak.

Commissioned by a bank at the height of the Great Depression, this mural by the famed illustrator was intended to inspire a sense of abundance in customers.

Although built to generate electricity for Marylanders, this dam has become an all-you-can-eat buffet for American bald eagles.

This historic lighthouse was well known for the large number of women who served as its keeper.

Fiji mermaids, mummified remains, and recreated cryptids are among the morbid oddities at this Maryland museum.

A grotesque Fiji merman dwells within this traditional Dutch-style building.