Places lyzchapman Wants to Go

The island of Lanai in Hawai'i is a paradise for cats and cat lovers.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A 1950s eccentric's vision of Eden preserved as a hiking trail.

12,000 sq. ft. museum tracing erotic art from antiquity to modern times.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Disney's abandoned animal island is now an overgrown ruin that was almost the coolest attraction ever.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

Possibly the most beautiful carillon in the world, set atop Iron Mountain in Florida.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.

This frozen tunnel in central Alaska is both an engineering feat and a valuable climate classroom.

The ghostly remains of what was once the world's richest copper mine.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

The "last unrestored grand mansion of Savannah" is now a cramped, mouldering maze of antiques.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

An abandoned theme park with a strange and tumultuous past.

One of the few surviving "Wigwam"-themed motels.

Moonbows over Kentucky.

Prehistoric animals decorate this popular outdoor park.

Mile-long cave system near Great Smoky Mountains.

Wild lights and sound effects turn a walk through some caves into an eye-popping 1960s tourist attraction.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

The building that inspired Shirley Jackson's "The Haunting of Hill House."