Places katherinehillier Wants to Go

A surreal botanical garden with an even more surreal tour guide.

One of the most comprehensive collections of historic Native American culture in the country reframes artifacts as artwork.

This beautiful landscape is the only Sichuan-style garden outside of China.

A massive cave once a secret military base is now home to thousands of bats.

A Dutch museum preserves the world's most diverse collection of vertical slices of soil.

An impressive bridge over a ravine also served as an aqueduct.

Believed to be the birthplace of John Balliol.

This moss-covered boulder is said to be part of a diabolical plant to sabotage the Durham Cathedral's foundation.

Walk up a ramp through a forest for panoramic views of Lake Michigan.

Experience the glam side of air travel without leaving the ground at this speakeasy.

Dedicated to the armor and weapons used by the legendary Japanese warriors.

A former mining village that now operates as an open-air museum.

A deer-headed statue that brings together a 12th-century legend and big wave surfing.

An ancient cave system in Tennessee’s Appalachian foothills converted to a 1,200-person music venue.

The archeological ruins of the ancient fortified city of the mysterious Teotenanca civilization.

A diminutive, thousand-year-old church believed to be the smallest in Ireland.

These are probably the most beautifully crafted toilets you've ever seen.

One of almost 200 confirmed impact craters in the entire world, untouched for tens of millions of years.

In Rickwood Caverns, visitors can travel hundreds of feet underground and see beautiful formations unique to the region.

A rampant horde of demons smirk and snarl at visitors to this church, home to a rare complete set of medieval-era stained glass windows.

A spectacular overlook of the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, a deep sandstone gorge streaked with orange, red and white in a remote, uncrowded part of Utah.

A dangerous narrow-gauge railroad once traced a route through this striking canyon.

The longest skywalk in Taiwan.

Featuring Torres Strait Islander cuisine and Australia's first indigenous bar.