Places madiking1822 Wants to Go

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

Hidden in the hills of Hollywood, this secluded Oz-themed garden is dotted with dozens of thrones.

America's most famous piece of self-built architecture.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A walk through the historic city center, under the streets of Seattle.

The abandoned zoo enclosures offer a perfect place to experience the other side of the bars.

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

Crystal clear lake with a shoreline of travertine located in a Colorado canyon.

A 140-year-old castle with underground caves hidden in San Francisco.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

High on a hill overlooking Los Angeles lives a world famous, high-power conical Tesla Coil.

This abandoned subway station beneath the Waldorf-Astoria hotel is allegedly used to secretly transport presidents.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

Remants of foundations, streets, and streetcar tracks inhabit the cliffs where a landslide occurred in 1929.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

An immersive environment that is part haunted house, part choose-your-own-adventure, and part jungle gym.

Wondrous sandstone hoodoos where Native Americans collected clay for pottery, 9,000 years ago.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

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

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

These old stone ruins in the Oregon wilderness were once bathrooms and are steeped in legends of murder.