Places slapphappe Wants to Go

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

The magic's in the hole!

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

Contractors in this Oregon town have been stamping their names in sidewalks since 1908.

This extinct shield volcano is the lightning rod of the Cascades.

A vertically floating hemlock controls the waves and weather at Crater Lake.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

This 19th-century museum inside of a lighthouse is only accessible during low tide.

Sasqu(w)atch out!

A public fountain that spouts "health water" from a nearby spring.

Shakespeare has been brought to life in this open air theater for the better part of a century.

A forensic lab dedicated to fighting crimes against wildlife.

The Hudson River School comes alive at this palatial estate.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

The only intersection in America where the buildings on all four corners were built pre-Revolutionary War.

The site of a tragic massacre that spawned a multimedia franchise.

Whale bones, scrimshaw, and sperm oil make up just a part of this comprehensive collection of whaling history.

An eccentric playboy's astounding natural history collection.

Beneath the mossy overgrowth covering this once-sprawling campus lies decades of history and the secrets that come with it.

A former poultry store that looks like a giant duck and is one of the "seven wonders" of Long Island.

An unrealized dream to wirelessly electrify the entire Earth.

Etchings in a pile of boulders on the Long Island Sound are a monument to vanquished native peoples.

This icon of the Atomic Age now lays dormant.

A living antique aviation museum in the historic town of Red Hook, New York.