Places missdana74 Wants to Go

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

Rainbow-hued local gem in Venice.

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

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

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

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

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

An Italian crevasse filled with abandoned buildings gives visitors a look at the world without humans.

Try not to get slimed in Tribeca.

The only structure left with direct ties to the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692.

A haunting theme park is slowly being swallowed by the jungle.

Order cookies baked by cloistered nuns in a 400-year-old monastery.

The most magnificent bottle house in a town strangely full of them.

This museum looks at the history of one of America's most famous prisons and most beloved albums.

After the parade, students throw their beads on the tree hoping for good luck on exams.

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

A sharp bend in a dramatic river canyon cut through red rocks.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A tiny survivor of the Donner Party disaster.

This mother-daughter run curiosities shop is a beautifully odd mix of taxidermy and exotic plants.

One woman's Viking Castle on Lake Tahoe.