Places sweetm917 Wants to Go

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

Swedish mice can dine at the Nuts of Life restaurant or take a date to the amousement park.

Slyly buy a shake in the Parker Meridien lobby.

Read a book next to a Midtown waterfall.

A staggering collection of photographs depicting medical, social, and historical change.

This semi-hidden Manhattan restaurant is based out of a loading dock.

Some cheeky plantings brighten an old slipway on Scotland's Firth of Forth.

A collection of witchcraft artifacts and occult paraphernalia started by the leader of the Long Island Coven.

The gilded, masterful astronomical clock will calculate time, dates, and planetary positions for thousands of years to come.

One of the now-less-hidden floral gems of the "Emerald Necklace."

This Boston medical museum features the skull of the famous medical case of Phineas Gage.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

Life-size bronzes of the Grinch, Cat in the Hat, Yertle the Turtle, Sam-I-Am, and the Lorax—and the author himself.

A museum dedicated to the quirky and colorful world created by Springfield's favorite son.

The Pennsylvania landscape depicted by a quarter mile of mosaics made from used road signs.

The world's oldest bookshop still in operation.

A hidden gem on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol Building designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

The latest in a series of long glass bridges suspended at terrifying heights.

The largest cave chamber in Britain—big enough to fit a whole cathedral inside.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

This "zoo" is a cross between a junkyard and a sculpture garden, featuring animals you won't see anywhere else.

A living archive of urban activism and space reclaimed.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.