Places nejuum Wants to Go

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

See massive fossils that are over 200 million years old in northeastern Arizona.

A little piece of the Shire is hidden behind a plant nursery in Port Orchard, Washington.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This Los Angeles animation studio is keeping the wonder of stop motion puppetry alive.

The magic's in the hole!

A shop full of natural curiosities, carnivorous plants, and costumed taxidermied mice.

A century-old hotspot for jazz, frequented by everyone from Charlie Chaplin to Al Capone.

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

Featuring a casually threatening atmosphere along with dessert and coffee to die for.

The Boston square dedicated to the dark poet who was born nearby.

This unmarked and unloved Manhattan subway grate created one of the most iconic images in American cinema.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

One man's vast collection of artifacts and ephemera from matchbooks and postcards to vintage neon signs and cars.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

Mysterious 500-year-old tapestries depict a unicorn hunt.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

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

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.