Places SamS Wants to Go

This English-inspired Maryland garden is home to acres of opulent plant life including bushes shaped into an entire fox hunt.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

A beautiful bamboo trail tucked in this famous Japanese shrine.

The quintessential Japanese rock garden has existed for more than 500 years.

Stained glass windows bathe this botanical garden in cosmic light.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A clear example of the process of erosion in action.

An incredible garden taking over the interior of a massive sinkhole.

An unusual manor of stunning beauty, born out of a crippling disease.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

A palatial sculpture park was built illegally and in secret by a self-taught artist over 36 years.

An elaborate gift from Claus Spreckels is now a piece of San Francisco history.

Relics of the 1894 Midwinter Exposition continue to delight visitors today.

A complex, nine-layer maze on the grounds of a Venetian doge's playground.

Founded in 670, this ancient mosque is an architectural time portal.

Thousands of narrow alleyways in an ancient medieval city make up what's believed to be the world's largest car-free urban zone.

The engineering wonder and pleasure dome of a much-maligned emperor still holds undiscovered secrets.

One of the few remaining ancient aqueducts described by Frontinus as 'the most solemn testimony of the Empire.'

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

These 18th century gardens tell a rocky story of the son of Odysseus.

The ruins of an ancient island city built atop a coral reef in the South Pacific are spectacular and strange enough to have inspired H.P. Lovecraft.

The ruins of an ancient city built by Mayan traders is centered around a temple of a sacred feathered serpent deity.

A beautifully well-preserved ancient Roman villa.