Places nyulman Wants to Go

On a clear day, you can see all the way to the Virgin Islands from the top of this observation tower built in the 1960s.

A magnificent waterfall nestled in the heart of the El Yunque National Forest.

Archaeological sites and great food inside the island's largest mangrove forest.

A hand-painted advertisement for chocolate adorns the walls of this historic building.

Where dogs like the rare "Fire-Tailed Border Cocker" run free on the mountainside.

A secret climbing tree hides along the side of a Costa Rican road.

One of the world's largest model railroads is a mind-boggling achievement.

Trinkets and toys lovingly handmade by maximum security prisoners.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

This historic railway museum may have lost its passengers but not its love for trains.

This whimsically unique butterfly farm focuses solely on creating habitats for the gentle insects.

Protecting the future of some of the rarest and most misunderstood mammals of North America.

An eccentric German artist built this weird and wondrous castle packed with shocking sculptures and alien art.

Tiki luxury on Nob Hill.

A quick trip around the globe through an amazing miniature exhibit.

The studio of influential composer Charles Ives is perfectly reconstructed, hidden in the back of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

One of the last Jazz Age "Wonder Theaters" in New York City.

An exhibition space dedicated to American outsider art created between the 18th and 21st centuries.

A couple's 60-year love of collecting is on display at this unique stove repair shop in Maine.

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

Quirky movable sculptures have been racing through the town since 1983.

A collection of odd-shaped and quirky sounding instruments handmade by a midcentury inventor-composer.

Journey through a collection of over 35,000 Halloween items from all generations.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.