Places Michelle Cassidy Wants to Go

Perfectly preserved ancient monastery in an impossibly dramatic location on a rocky island in the Atlantic.

Two community gardens under the elevated subway lines on a very busy commercial strip in Bushwick.

Extraordinary objects lurk in this quintessential regional museum.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

"Gnome Chomsky" was once the largest gnome in the world, but is now simply tall for his kind.

The sign at the garden gate reads: “These Plants Can Kill.”

Started as a kitchen garden, now the second largest botanical garden in the world.

The risqué mixed-media sculptures are supposedly a metaphor for Czech politics.

The menacing creature had a tremendous influence on the local culture before being exposed as a hoax.

This town near Nagasaki is flecked with fruit-flavored bus stops.

Giant topiary dog once played a role in a terrorist bomb plot.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Meet the bronze beloved pet to a family of famous peeing statues.

An homage to the pointers and retrievers that have long been a hunter's best friend.

Enormous, fluffy dogs frolic around this museum dedicated to a legendary Saint Bernard.

A small pack of an ancient, hairless breed of dog once believed to guide souls through the underworld lives on its grounds.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

Atop this media building, two hives containing more than 30,000 bees keep the surrounding area vibrant.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

There's an old indoor swimming pool hidden directly underneath the White House Press Briefing Room.

Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”

The towering figures were created from the cemetery's fallen old-growth trees.

The first presidential bomb shelter was located in an old vault under the Treasury, connected to the White House via tunnel.