Places SarahTheExplorer Wants to Go

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

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.

The world's longest known cave system.

Hear, smell, see, taste, and touch history at this immersive Civil War hospital.

A secretive collection featuring objects that were designed specifically for U.S. intelligence operations.

This free, take-a-book shop seems like a trick but isn't.

This museum chronicles the history of a leprosy quarantine hospital that then became a refuge.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

The first custom-designed building to showcase the works of Dale Chihuly is a wonderland of glass and light.

The language and heritage of a nearly forgotten culture can still be explored in this Southern enclave.

A humid oasis combines recreation with exploration in a unique underwater cavern.

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

You thought Santa Claus didn't exist, but it turns out you were wrong.

Display that gathers the basic elements of the universe in one convenient location.

Software company Epic Systems has created one of the strangest and largest workplaces of all time.

A bypass decorated with large wooden troll carvings.

The center of the only hemisphere that awards visitors with a commemorative coin.

This Colorado hiking trail provides a small gold mine of abandoned gold mines.

An immersive art experience built by local arts collaborative, Factory Obscura, in the building formerly known as The Womb, a psychedelic arts center founded by the frontman of the Flaming Lips.

The only diamond mine in the world where you can keep what you find.

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

When this test site was abandoned, they didn't even bother to take the rocket with them.

Small teepee-like houses built for TB patients have become sheds, studios, and bus stops around Colorado Springs.