Places Sydney Rose Wants to Go

A glimpse of the Pacific Northwest‘s indigenous culture in Washington, D.C.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Only reachable by boat, a small Tanzanian national park is home to the chimpanzees that Jane Goodall spent her career studying.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

Among Europe’s most spectacular Ice Age painted caves still accessible today.

Hauntingly beautiful totem poles left by the Haida.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

Dedicated to extinct passenger pigeons.

Hidden in the hills of Western Pennsylvania lies one of the best-kept ghost towns in America that you can legally visit.

This giant squid sculpture sits near the spot where a real-life specimen was captured in the late 19th-century.

It turns out that a hurricane-prone beach is probably not the best place to house wild animals.

A massive skeleton suspended in the Memorial University of Newfoundland's Core Science Facility.

Originally a leper colony, the island is now an Armenian monastery that's home to an incredible manuscript library and eclectic museum.

The world's only facility where orphaned mountain gorillas are cared for.

One man’s obsessive, 30-plus-year quest is behind the pies at this spot on the Lower East Side.

Zambia's smallest national park is home to one of the world's largest annual mammal migrations.

A small horde of mythical creatures lurk almost imperceptibly within the museum's wildlife dioramas.

A traveling postal dog covered 48 states and more than 140,000 miles, and he lives on as taxidermy, patched up with a rabbit's foot and a pig's ear.

‘Bush the old fire dog died of poison July 5th, 1869. RIP.’

This tombstone marks the spot where the legendary British spy met his end.

One of England’s oldest and most haunted inns may have inspired the legend of Sweeney Todd.

The taxidermied body of a bear that was a casualty of a drug trafficker’s bizarre death.

Tour the dark and beloved poet's former cobwebbed basement, which may have inspired "The Black Cat."