Places Rose Stuart Wants to Go

This Costa Rican topiary park is a surreal garden of unearthly delights.

Traditional Appalachian dances such as the Georgia Rang Tang and the Shoo-Fly Swing are kept alive at this weekly event.

From golden eagles to peregrine falcons, this rehabilitation and education center is a haven for birds of prey.

A permanent outdoor art installation made up of more than 100 mushroom-shaped lights.

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

This wildlife refuge is home to more than 200 species of birds, as well as monkeys, lizards, and other wildlife.

The site of Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest as he attempted to have lunch.

Town of spiritualists and mediums in Florida.

Where serial killer Aileen Wuornos drank her last beer.

What started as three small gnomes at the base of a tree has grown into a full-blown gnome home.

This small-town Connecticut restaurant gives each diner a free book from its vast library.

Every Saturday morning, this microbakery fills up with freshly baked pastries and sourdough breads.

One of the first amphibian migration tunnels in the United States encourages a tradition that has inspired Amherst residents for decades.

A unique collection of more than 250 rocks and minerals located on a university campus.

This miniature museum is home to a vast array of insects.

Thousands of migrating monarchs overwinter clustered amongst the eucalyptus trees.

The highest dunes in California are the most likely place in the area to hear the Singing Sands.

This naturally heated mountainous creek has created a group of neon blue pools of potentially deadly boiling water.

A pair of black granite tails dive into a sea of grass in landlocked Vermont.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

A colorful narrow alley in Cuba is full of street art and sculptures made of found objects.

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

Where monkeys run wild and the humans are caged.

For divers and music lovers, the Florida Keys' Underwater Music Festival provides the best of both worlds.