Places limikoleit Wants to Go

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Gigantic private toy museum featuring among finest collections of antique mechanical banks in existence.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

Government testing at the asylum briefly explored using marijuana as a "truth serum" on Nazi prisoners of war.

Former villa and estate of James Deering developed to preserve native tropical forests.

It's not a typo, now say it five times fast!

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Civil War dumping ground for the bodies of terrorized Union sympathizers.

This cavernous abandoned marble mine is popular with ice skaters in the winter.

The smallest country in the world.

Thriving meadows span a rooftop in one of Brooklyn's most heavily industrialized neighborhoods.

This futuristic airport terminal was abandoned for decades before reopening as a hotel—with a vintage plane of its own parked out back.

Beautiful waterfalls grace a canyon visibly torn by a violent tornado.

Beautiful hillside Vermont cemetery with amazing funerary art.

Ice cream stand, snack bar, and time capsule of milk conveyance.

Continuing a tradition of movie magic on the site of America’s oldest continually operating movie theatre.

Alabama has a fiberglass Stonehenge. With apologies to Spinal Tap, this one is full-size.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

An unusual assortment of art, furniture, and other curiosities.

"Iron Age" creatures fill this huckster's rusted metal sculpture garden.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The miraculous hydrant that saved the Mission District in 1906.

The oddly shaped, steam-spewing building is now an art studio and gallery.