Places Opinicus Wants to Go

A short nature trail winds through the greatest works of poet Robert Frost.

An Adirondacks museum housed in the former studio of Marcella Sembrich, the 19th century opera star most famous for her role of Mimi in "La Boheme."

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

A delightful park featuring homemade scale replicas of dinosaurs, tucked away in the Tennessee mountains.

Even Henry David Thoreau found this glacial pothole irresistible.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

The thousands of shades on display — some toxic, others impossibly rare — are a library of more than just color.

Cat art as far as the eye can see.

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

This small, but long-running hobby club has built one of the largest model rail lines in the US.

The deepest underground city in Turkey was designed to protect 20,000 people behind massive stone doors.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.

This homegrown adoption center offers a wonderland of feline companionship.

HFH's slum simulation is either a noble recreation of poverty or a cringeworthy attempt at same.

While many places make the claim, the Library of Congress says this restaurant is the birthplace of the hamburger.

Just a few miles from downtown Atlanta is a trail covered in a crazy collection of outsider art.

Beneath Kraków Old Town's main square lies a hologram-filled medieval market vampire graveyard wonderland.

Buried five stories underground, this Soviet bunker is packed with gas masks and Cold War paraphernalia.

Marvel at this turn-of-the-century masterpiece that has been turned into a rather stately supermarket.

For 20 years, this whale skeleton has been slowly dripping oil on the floor of the museum where it hangs.

Honoring the famed folktale author, this California museum looks like it belongs in the Black Forest.

Manhattan's deadly West Side railroad, which killed hundreds of New Yorkers, is remembered by this simple plaque.

This opera house along the banks of the Connecticut River has two Tony Awards to its credit but it’s never staged a single opera.

Walk the same tracks that once ferried Gilded Age aristocrats to their vacation destinations.