Places samanthahale Wants to Go

A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.

Arlington Cemetery exhibit dedicated to death and grieving.

Used as an example in one of the first dictionary entries for "museum" in 1706.

Ancient Egyptian wigs, South American feather headdresses, a bounty of anthropological artifacts in Oxford.

Home to items never before seen by the public.

Eighty million natural history specimens call this gargantuan museum home.

This "cursed house" features secret rooms, hidden vaults, and dark escape tunnels.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A wealth of plants and horticultural curiosities fill this charmingly antique museum.

The former global standard for the exact mass of one kilogram sits under lock and key outside Paris.

This ancient monastery complex was transformed from an island to a peninsula when the lake was partially drained.

A fantastical 13th-century fortification sandwiched by a modern hotel in central Brussels.

An outstanding piece of retro Sci-Fi architecture built into a sacred mountain.

Gnarled canopies of pink and purple wildflowers arch over the trail to the summit.

In Faroese legend, this sinister horse-shaped beast lures unsuspecting passersby only to drown them in the lake.

The petrified remains of 150-million-year-old trees can be seen in and among the houses of the local villagers.

This 15th-century cave complex is one of the very few monasteries to stay open throughout World War II and the Soviet regime.

A Canadian port town is oddly home to two of the largest tree burls in the world.

Crooked windswept pines give this old forest an enchanted and magical look.

History, geography, and shamanism meet in this eye-catching monument to the greatness of three empires.

This rare basilica nestled right in downtown Asheville is an architectural marvel, inside and out.

Oh, just a motel on the edge of the desert decorated with thousands of clowns conveniently located next to an abandoned graveyard.

An early-19th-century hotel with a past that is steeped in the Civil War.

This haunted hotel built on natural springs once served as a hospital for a quack doctor promising a cure for cancer.