Places Lauren Young Wants to Go

The restaurant keeps a hidden séance room on the second floor and reserves a table for the spirit of the former owner each night.

A small park on Bourbon Street features life-size bronze statues of New Orleans musicians.

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

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

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.

A rococo retro-futurist future-rustic vernacular between yesterday’s tomorrow and the future that never was.

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

A collision of human error and natural geothermal pressure created this rainbow-colored geologic wonder.

The summer home of the largest colony of bats in the world.

Once the path of a railway tunnel, now home to thousands of glowing insects.

For two weeks every June, fireflies in the Smoky Mountains perform an astonishing light show.

Last residence of H.P. Lovecraft featured in his story "The Haunter of the Dark."

The rocks in this arid basin leave trails of movement behind them.

Towering basalt columns, a creation of fire and ice.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

An eccentric garden of sculptures crafted in India decorate an Irish green space dedicated to Alan Turing.

Artists and musicians now rule over this former rail station.

The anatomical-pathological collection of a man who changed surgery.

One of the few remaining casualties of the London Blitz, this destroyed church has become an enchanting public garden.

Since 1874, this macabre collection has developed into a museum devoted to Scotland Yard's mementos of dastardly deeds.

Bouncing, delightful, mechanical art at the MIT Museum.

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.