Places SamWandersEarth Wants to Go

A monument in Washington D.C. marks the spot from which all other roads were supposed to stem.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

Doris Duke's lasting collection of Islamic Art, hidden in a Hawaiian paradise.

This ancient Hawaiian henge may have been an early star chart.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

This museum of Hawaiian and Polynesian culture is the legacy of the last descendant of the Kamehameha Dynasty.

An authentic replica of an Asian temple and garden hidden amongst the natural beauty of Hawai'i.

This World War II-era bunker is now packed with posters and props from movies and TV shows filmed nearby.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

This mom-and-pop Japanese sweets shop has been serving cloud-light mochi for almost a century.

Five candy-colored villages on the Italian Riviera.

The legacies of two historic Black American institutions live on in this unassuming brick building.

An eerie diorama that captures the majestic nature of a few prehistoric-looking beasts.

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

Creating this diorama spurred naturalist Carl Akeley to begin advocating to protect the apes.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This poignant display is now a memorial to these regionally extinct species.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

Outstanding taxidermy dioramas showcase the grandeur of the continent's wildlife with spooky realism.

The beautiful tunnel that ran from the lobby to Penn Station is still hidden underneath 34th Street.

A reproduction of earth's many biomes.

Race through the maze, get your name on the sign.

A Tucson museum and performance space full of found-object movable sculptures.