Places kaitlyn2june2 Wants to Go

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

The oldest Italian café in Boston, this spot also serves as a veritable museum of vintage coffee ephemera.

Stripes of flowers bloom each spring in a 50 acre rainbow of color.

A look into the Church of Scientology's deeply unfavorable view of psychiatry.

Seemingly grown on some other world, these New Mexico rock formations look like a disused science fiction set.

Each year these high desert hills are absolutely covered with poppy flowers in a surreal show of nature.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

Get lost in this haunting fairytale art walk through a man-made eucalyptus grove.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

The seamy, underground secrets of Portland's criminal past.

The world’s oldest and biggest bookstore stocking only mystery, crime fiction, espionage, and thrillers.

A giant Troll lurks under one of Seattle's oldest bridges.

A one-of-a-kind collection of a unique medium.

The installation’s official name, “You Who Are Getting Obliterated in the Dancing Swarm of Fireflies,” says it all.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

Amid the bustle and noise of the Financial District hides a secluded garden oasis above the city streets.

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

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

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.