Places Maddy Wants to Go

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The oldest operating pharmacy in the world features 800-year-old recipes.

Alabama’s oldest and largest metaphysical shop.

Lankaster is a research and conservation center specializing in orchids and tropical plants, located near the city of Cartago.

A candle shop hiding a haunted basement once used as a monkey research lab.

You can dig for your own 52-million-year-old fish fossils.

A collection of collections, including an anatomy museum, the “Cabinet of Physics of Alessandro Volta, a museum of natural history, mineral collection, and much much more...

There are no bodies inside these stone coffins. And there never were.

Years of archaeology, just chillin' by the water cooler.

Polish babkas, cheesecakes, and rose jelly-filled doughnuts are made fresh daily at this neighborhood stalwart.

Even for Egyptian royalty, the afterlife was bring-your-own-beef.

Final resting place of the immigrant who brought artificial seltzer water to America.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

An extraordinary collection of artifacts spanning 500 years of medical history.

This unique park is dedicated to a favorite locally born snack line.

A Milanese café entirely designed by the American director Wes Anderson.

An indoor botanical garden for tropical plants looks like a giant cylinder lying on its side.

For more than 75 years, this living piece of history has been serving exceptional soul food.

This century-old pharmacy is home to several striking mosaics depicting Catholic saints.

This largest dinosaur tracksite in Wyoming is one of the only in the world from the Middle Jurassic Period.

Decades of pinball and arcade classics line this South Florida outpost of a popular Northeast arcade.

A celebration of one man’s obsession to collect the strangest items imaginable.

Once a year, the ruins of an ancient village come alive with hundreds of glowing farolitos.