Places potatolover Wants to Go

An astounding collection of medical specimens, including bits of President Lincoln.

San Franciscans leave gifts and messages for the magical beings that live behind the tiny, mysterious door installed on a tree in Golden Gate Park.

The largest greenhouse in the world is home to over one million types of plants.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Prison made famous by The Shawshank Redemption has been out of commission since 1990.

A magical place that lets you play in and explore the world of Studio Ghibli.

A former utopian healing center created by a huckster and built by derelicts.

Long the exclusive domain of birds and vagabonds, this little-known Central Park peninsula is open to the public once more.

This semi-secret storybook hedge maze is also the oldest garden in the city.

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

A subterranean world of tunnels links several buildings of this rare 19th-century asylum.

This neighborhood grocery houses a treasure trove of Eastern European delights.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

In the late 1990s, a mechanic and fan bought this iconic sportscar back from the dead.

One of the few places where you can visit a cenote and Maya ruins at the same time.

The 80-foot tire that looms over Michigan's I-94 was once a Ferris wheel in the New York World Fair.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

Two gems of Beaux Arts architecture that have been sitting vacant for years.

This Berlin island is home to a flock of free-roaming peacocks, as well as a historic ivory folly.

The busy transport hub is home to the tallest airport slide in the world.

The home of aviation trailblazers, in a remote corner of the big city.