Places semken Wants to Go

The only thing better than tubing down New Jersey's scenic Delaware River is doing so while eating a hot dog from a giant floating stand.

From Japan to Italy, this California park explores the world's cultures through their gardens.

This rock was donated to the museum by an inspired young visitor.

This restaurant serves wood-fired fare served in a natural cave with a live spring.

The randomness of this wall of lava lamps helps encrypt up to 10 percent of the internet.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

Nicknamed the "Grand Canyon of the North," this open-pit mine in Minnesota has a much shorter history.

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

These cliff and rock formations are made out of Sioux Quartzite.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

Non-profit time travel mart sells goods you would need for a trip through the fourth dimension.

This floating garden in the sky is straight out of a fairy tale, but the real thing is nothing short of magical.

The largest known open fault in the United States is basically a giant natural refrigerator.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

One of the city’s oldest watering holes was originally the home of a famous James Brown (not that one).

How would you like to dine in the same room where some of the Titanic's victims were embalmed?

This sparsely populated town offers a look back in time.

A little slice of Florida face-in-a-hole kitsch, unexpectedly located in a small New Mexico town.

A ghost town revived by hippies and wanderers throws its own special brand of holiday parade.

Home to New Mexico's longest bar, this watering hole also has a mining museum and a haunted history.

The seventh largest spring in the world.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

In 1909, the steepest and most difficult piece of track on the Canadian Pacific Railway was replaced with a series of spiralling tunnels cut into the mountains.