Places pikapika Wants to Go

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Sail through this subterranean show cave that is home to a legend that would go on to name nearly everything around it.

Less a museum than a bizarre fantasy world created by artists and engineers.

A collection of 20th-century automata, penny arcade games, and musical contraptions.

The oldest operating apothecary in the US has treated everyone from Thomas Edison to Mark Twain.

This former tuberculosis research hospital endeavored to cure the dreaded disease with fresh air and positive attitudes.

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

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

A very classy 1920s-era bar right in Grand Central Station.

In a 345-million-year-old cave that's 200 feet underground, dinner awaits.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

A bizarre roadside attraction and the first instance of miniature golf in the world.

A mysterious castle built as a monument to lost love.

Crammed into a Baltimore row house is an oddities shop that sells everything from skulls to dead insects.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

This woodland architectural installation acts as a camera obscura for the heavens.

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

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

The longest navigable underground river in the United States is home to countless blind and albino animals.

Become a prohibition rebel.

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.