Places sherryolet Wants to Go

Free public park and gardens filled with peacocks and peahens.

An enormous pink granite batholith, long attributed with spiritual powers by the Tonkawa Indians.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

The early American colonists were such ferocious drinkers the law actually required every town to have a tavern.

An iconic steel and chrome diner from the 1940s left empty for nearly 20 years is in danger of being demolished.

This tribute to the founding father of the American dictionary originally contained a spelling error.

A tiny memorial for the year the Connecticut River almost destroyed New England.

Memorial to one of the most fatal fires in both circus and U.S. history.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

Made of bronze and wearing a blue gown, this lady sat in the same location in the Yantic Cemetery for more than 119 years.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A tribute to the truly loyal dog who waited outside a hospital for his owner to come back.

The mysterious headstone of an unidentified bank robber was seen visited, every year, by a woman in black.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A museum designed by and dedicated to P.T. Barnum in the town where he is buried.

The kind of mixed-up place that drives archaeologists crazy.

A reliquary of pop culture marvels, including the world's largest (and most terrifying) Jack-in-the-Box.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

This spectacular public market has got meat, fish, vegetables, baked goods, and enough kielbasa for a lifetime.

35,000 grape hyacinths flow like water down a garden hill.

For a time this small Florida town of less than 1,000 residents was the national leader in dismemberment.

This funky outdoor gallery in Florida is filled with whimsical recycled art installations.