Places Madeleine Wants to Go

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

This symbolic piece of New Orleans architecture is also home to a few ghastly stories.

The crypt of the imposing Stephensdom holds royal intestines and thousands of skeletons.

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

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The curiosities and wonders of pharmacy in a delightful historic building.

The curios of pharmacist and collector Henry Wellcome.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

A vast overgrown cemetery, once known as one of London's "Magnificent Seven."

This abandoned asylum was once a state of the art facility before devolving into one of the most deadly mental institutions in American history.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Experience park where visitors are told to expect the unexpected.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

A 1,215-foot tunnel transports pedestrians beneath the River Thames.

The private clubhouse for the members of the Academy of Magical Arts.

A giant bronze coil of feces is both a tribute to doggie defecation and a reminder to pick it up.

This massive wooden building contains a giant Buddha, healing pillars, and tame deer wandering the grounds.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

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

A monument to the art of slicing people open.