Places McCrisa Wants to Go

A gorgeous garden oasis with winding paths, stone bridges, and a troubling history.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

A 131-year-old wunderkammer of Texas history.

This unique tower has been home to malaria-fighting bats for 100 years.

Abandoned railroad tunnel is home to a colony of three million Mexican free-tail bats.

Coca Cola may be "the real thing" but its inventor, buried at this Georgia gravesite, called it a "valuable brain tonic."

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

This lush Florida island is home to the ruins of a crooked ship breaker's tiny empire.

Dedicated to the victims of one of the deadliest hurricanes to strike the United States in recorded history.

This spiny beast guards an artist's village while vying for the title of largest lobster in the world.

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

This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.

A stunning landscape of bunkers that once stored chemical weapons.

Legend says that these tall basalt pillars are the petrified wives of a trickster god.

The century-old remains of an abandoned farm town in eastern Washington.

With a floor made of thick glass, this observation deck offers a full view of Sunwapta Valley's mountains and rivers.

This First Nations monument is a peaceful spot with vast views of the Calgary prairie.

A forgotten "city of water" underneath the famous Trevi district.

The doodles of a genius line the walls of a secret room under the Medici Chapel, where they were hidden for nearly 500 years.

An alchemist's “magic door” stands in the middle of a Roman park.

This hidden Art Nouveau courtyard is an opulent feast for the eyes.

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Hundreds of lucky felines haunt the ruins where Caesar was murdered.