Places Kate Donovan Wants to Go

This collection of odd proofs of concept is like taking a walk through the imagination of a Victorian engineer.

Check out the 125-pound chocolate reindeer in the back of this candy shop.

Depending on who you ask, this controversial treehouse is either a charmingly creative child's playhouse or an illegal encroachment on public land.

Architecture lovers won’t stop touching the National Gallery's 19.5 degree marble prow.

Once part of a dam servicing an early 19th century grist mill, the tucked-way falls are a tricky-to-find urban oasis.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

Hamissi Mamba and Nadia Nijimbere opened this community-minded restaurant serving dishes from their native Burundi.

These beautiful garden buildings are among the oldest surviving greenhouses in the United States.

Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America.

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.

Cooks at this tiny takeout spot grind their rice flour in a stone mill each morning for perfect cheung fun.

All of the Malaysian sweets at this shop are made daily with a whole lot of love.

Slurp sesame noodles at the third-generation family-run establishment that invented them.

Dine on dumplings at the oldest dim sum restaurant in New York.

One of the oldest active carousels in the country—but it might be missed by all but the keenest-eyed boardwalk strollers.

A benevolent, 16-foot-tall river dragon lives on a suburban lawn.

An isolated island home to one of the oldest English-speaking communities in the region and Maryland's state dessert.

Easter in Westminster may be the only time and place to behold Edgar Allen Poe made entirely of Marshmallow Peeps.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

An abandoned church gets a second life as a massive beer hall and event space.

An eerie, abandoned military base engulfed by nature and graffiti is now home to a local park.

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

Bizarre Cavern.