Places mkowal Wants to Go

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

A much more welcome kind of snowbird vacationer, manatees camp out in these springs every winter.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

More gold than anywhere else, ever.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

A monument to the art of slicing people open.

Long-abandoned trolley tunnels just a mile away from the White House are turning into an art space.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

Ruins of a German castle on top of a towering stone pillar.

A curious collection dedicated to human and animal anatomy and pathology.

Take a drunken tour inside the world's largest known geode.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

A breathtaking array of ancient Pueblo structures and artifacts counterintuitively preserved by neglect.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

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

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

An underwater city for the dead.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

A favorite haunt of dinosaur loving children and hallucinogen loving hippies alike.

Rising from the sea like a stone monster.

Ninety feet off the valley floor is an ancient dwelling put under protection of the U.S. government by Teddy Roosevelt.

The world's only international cryptozoology museum is host to an unrivaled collection of mysterious objects.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

One of Antoni Gaudí's most classic buildings is well-known for its "dragon-back" design.