Places nickelcurry Wants to Go

A neo-Gothic temple in central Mexico featuring a labyrinthine network of crypts.

A Seussian sculpture made of brass instruments.

Sleep snuggled in a sphere suspended atop the forest canopy of Vancouver Island.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

The winter home of millions of migrating monarch butterflies.

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This artist's home turned gallery/museum preserves the creator's love of "Eastern" influences.

Get tall with nature's lankiest beasts and their warthog friends at this Kenyan preserve.

What is it about mushrooms that makes people wish they lived inside of them?

This natural rock "church" might not be a proper chapel but that doesn't mean it's not beautiful.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

This awesome Spanish castle is so fantastical it was actually used on Game of Thrones.

This home of a taxidermy hoarder is among the grandest and most singular of historic English estates.

In this truly magical place, rent hasn't been raised since the year 1520.

This Elizabethan hedge maze is one of only six in North America.

Sweet Willy, at 30 feet tall, is the world's biggest beagle.

Industrial ruin decimated this tiny New England company town in a fashion no one saw coming… and even fewer remember today.

This tri-part waterfall is a little bit of fairytale beauty in the heart of Luxembourg's Little Switzerland.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

This is not only one of the oldest collections in Europe, but also possibly the most beautiful.

Go inside a revolutionary, cage-less zoo where 35 species live and some of them roam free alongside their human visitors.

This Transylvania County city is home to a rare white squirrel population that is descended from an escaped carnival animal.

A monthly street "service" of handmade puppets and live original puppets, whose devotees profess has the power to change lives.

This small section of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery is rotten with famous authors' graves.