Places Michelle Cassidy Wants to Go

Sited in an Inner Mongolian desert are the remnants of an important trade stop along the Silk Road.

You can release a young butterfly at this beautiful indoor garden.

Its tremendous toad is actually a five-story museum and viewing platform.

This curious fresh and salt water lake holds a secret that draws in deep divers from around the world.

Curious onlookers have suspected this strange structure is a secret government base.

More than 3,200 cookie jars line the walls and shelves of this little shop and over 1,000 salt and pepper shakers

A gorgeous gilded tower houses what may be the world's largest collection of gin.

An out-of-place grove of sequoias thrives in northern Spain.

The statue honors the booming birds Rothsay, Minnesota, is famous for.

Come for the waffles, stay for more waffles.

This Arctic mining town is home to a cat that's spent years masquerading as a fox.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

Beautiful Austrian natural history museum with carved ceilings and row after row of ancient taxidermy.

Museum celebrating the ocean, with the largest wunderkammer dedicated to sea exploration.

Dedicated to the art and science of glass in equal measure, this space is as much laboratory as museum.

The programmatic glory of LA's giant whiskey barrel building has become an upscale reminder of the city's kitschy roadside past.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

Avant garde house of Pierre Cardin on the Cote d’Azur.

The only certified Trappist brewery outside of Europe hides in the central Massachusetts hills.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

A community farm in the midst of the Brooklyn concrete.

“Invented in Key West, Perfected in Brooklyn."

A series of tiny artificial islands rich with produce bob atop the surface of the lake.

The shape of this old salt factory complex was inspired by the course of the Sun.