Places klamorey Wants to Go

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

A lovely aquatic park built by a one-armed Civil War veteran who made a fortune from lotuses.

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

Step into Monet's world at this fine-dining restaurant in the middle of a New Jersey sculpture park.

Time travel with sweets across history at this research-based candy store.

The oldest dim sum restaurant in the United States is a nostalgic jewel.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

Found: Garden of Eden in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

A peaceful, unique botanical garden complete with waterfalls, mini islands, and swans.

A luxuriant botanical garden below sea level.

A hidden beach at the end of a tunnel of mangrove trees.

Japanese gardens dedicated to the Japanese farmer that refused to throw in the trowel.

This Florida sinkhole hides a rainforest-like micro-environment in its depths.

Just your average Marie Antoinette–themed speakeasy in an abandoned 19th-century subway tunnel.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

A 115-year-old restored German dining hall awaits those who venture beneath the Minnesota State Capitol.

Cool down and fill up after visiting Teotihuacán at this bar and restaurant in a deep, underground cave.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

A natural tidal swimming pool is ringed by bizarrely artistic lava rock formations.

At the foot of a waterfall lies a peaceful swimming lagoon and evidence of over 60,000 years of human habitation.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.