Places mollyflan Wants to Go

This lovely, if imposing, piece of Canadian gothic is possibly the most photographed hotel in the world.

One of the most beautiful bookstores in the world hides a neo-Gothic interior behind an art nouveau facade.

A stone nook where Frederick Douglass escaped the world to think, read, and write.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

The crypts of Capuchin friars decorated with the bones of over 4,000 friars, including an entire "crypt of pelvises."

Mysterious rocks that ring musically when struck.

A museum of carnival attractions where you are invited to ride the rides.

An infamous former prison is now a biodiverse national park.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.

The remains of an abandoned dinosaur theme park litter the woods just off the highway.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

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

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A half-mile long and three stories high, this bridge over the Des Moines River Valley mimics a descent into a mine shaft.

The world's longest known cave system.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.