Places Meg Neal Wants to Go

Louisa May Alcott based “Little Women” on her experiences growing up in this house with her sisters.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

The world's longest nonstop reversible cable car soars through spectacular scenery to the medieval Tatev Monastery.

The site of the first medieval crusade that pitted Christians against Christians.

A spectacular disused railway viaduct in a beautiful countryside nature reserve.

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

A terrific purveyor of natural history objects and curios.

This tiny patch of arid sand sits in one of the greenest states in the United States.

Hopeless romantics will swoon over the sweet story behind this bright and colorful home.

This isolated Japanese mountain village untouched by time showcases unique and stunning traditional architecture.

One man's lifelong collection of 10,000 rare steins tells the story of beer drinking from 1350 to today.

This excellent museum recreates the boom days of the herring rush in the "Atlantic Klondike."

The spot where the fascist dictator made some of his most famous speeches including declaring war on Britain and France.

The world’s largest collection of Tiffany glass sits in a warehouse in Queens.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

The sinister ruins of one of the worst dam failures of the 20th century lie in this astonishing alpine setting.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

A simple plaque on the facade is the only reminder that the treaty ending the American Revolution was signed inside.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

Cryptic messages embedded in the New York City sidewalk.

Several plaster noses are hidden in plain sight around London's Soho neighborhood.

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

The sweetest graveyard in the world is filled with headstones for dearly de-pinted ice cream flavors.