Places samfsm Wants to Go

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

An underwater city for the dead.

The quiet resting place of a rock and roll legend.

Booker T. Washington's home at the Tuskegee Institute was a gem of splendor.

Since it formed millions of years ago, this cave system has been a sacred burial ground, a Prohibition-era speakeasy, and the center of an amusement park.

An autonomous oak in Alabama.

A rusted metal giant pays tribute to Birmingham’s industrial past.

Come for the boats, stay to explore the intriguing assortment of art.

Every last book in this bookstore is signed by the author.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

148 feet long and in the middle of a verdant forest.

These hilariously laughing bronze figures lampoon empty promises while encouraging civic engagement.

Kings Cross Station pays tribute to its role in Britain's best-selling book series.

This shop and gallery is a modern-day cabinet of curiosities, unassumingly positioned along an urban thoroughfare.

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

This ornate Victorian marketplace was the setting for Diagon Alley and the Leaky Cauldron in the first ‘Harry Potter’ film.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

A horde of stray cats rule in this secluded Parisian cemetery under a bridge.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

The beloved statue at the National Academy of Sciences is oh so inviting to sit on.

This stunning blue and gold room changed cities twice before becoming part of the Smithsonian.

A wondrous old library overlooking the nation's capital.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

A painfully obvious spy house sits right across the street from the Russian Embassy.