Places kathyhicko59 Wants to Go

Allowing humans and fish alike to migrate from freshwater to saltwater and back again.

A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.

A hidden gem full of oddities, curiosities and macabre antiques.

See a full-scale whale skeleton and experience the captivating culture of Alaska’s Native people at this heritage center in east Anchorage.

This offbeat trailer park is home to vintage peddlers, local artists, indie makers, and more.

Deep into the lower floors of Pike Place, find a date with fowl fate.

This grand old 80-foot sequoia towers above the buildings in the city’s retail center.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This theater opened in 1998, but both the building and the puppeteers who perform there have a distinguished history.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

A geothermal paradise with bubbling mud pools and bright blue hot springs.

This eye-popping Icelandic crater lake is surrounded by red volcanic rock.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

Every summer local children form "pysja patrols" to save young birds that have wandered from their nests.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

This replica Viking village was created for a film that was never shot and is now open to visitors.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.

This elegant arc of a waterfall marks a religious turning point.

The oldest church in Iceland is one of the few to feature ornate decoration.

This museum dedicated to divination also honors a local 10th-century prophetess.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

Built as a gift to the hottest tastemaker of the time, these hidden quarters remain an Art Deco showpiece.