Places mfayesimon Wants to Go

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

One of the best-preserved ghost towns in Arizona speaks to the difficulties of establishing mining towns in the 19th century American West.

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

Sloth rehabilitation center in the jungle of Costa Rica.

This abandoned hospital is one of the most haunted places in Costa Rica.

The translucent turquoise hue of these natural swimming pools comes from a high concentration of minerals.

This neon blue river gets its color from a unique mix of bacteria and volcano minerals.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

This temple, built by an eccentric religious leader before his death, sits guarded and in ruins.

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

The lowest point in North America is home to an undrinkable pool surrounded by fields of geometric salt flats.

The remains of a boarding school designed to forcibly assimilate Native American children.

Travelers leave tea kettles in a remote part of Death Valley as part of a mysterious, decades-old tradition.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

An abandoned Jazz Age dream home and con man's hideout in Death Valley.

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

A lawless town deep in Death Valley was famous for its riches and death rate turned YouTube famous.

A museum of unusual collections, mini-towns, and a half-dog, half-alligator.

Inside this art and oddity-filled shop, a small room filled with secrets.

Tiny historical streetcars wind through a small scale version of Crescent City in this whimsical train garden.

A 19th-century shrine covered with prosthetic body parts as votive offerings.

This unique shop is full of memento mori art, antique medical equipment, secret society paraphernalia, and historical relics.

A snapshot of the city's fascinating voodoo culture.