Places Sydney Rose Wants to Go

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

This impeccably preserved farmstead is a time capsule of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist's life.

This former “ante-chamber to the guillotine” has been refurbished to illustrate the brutal history of French justice.

A true roadside icon standing on the same plains that the herds once roamed.

A haunting exhibit in a wildlife refuge center highlights threatened species and the conservation efforts needed to save them.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

Gold Rush-era tombstones line the park's paths.

Over 12,500 words are scrawled across each room of this historic plantation house and no one knows why.

The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.

This Wild West attraction is probably more fiction than history, but that doesn't mean it's not awesome.

These six walrus head statues harken back to a time when this area wasn't far from the oceanfront.

Walk in the footsteps of the famed astronaut at Purdue University.

Georges Seurat’s pointillist masterpiece has been recreated in Ohio in topiary form.

Discovered on a shipwreck after more than 400 years, this Renaissance ratter tells a very waggly tale.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

It would be easy to walk past this unusual piece of art and have no idea it pays tribute to the odd life of a real chicken.

This high-perched pachyderm marks the memory of not one, but two elephants gunned down in small New England towns.

Dive bar built out of the remains of a whaling ship.

Baltimore's classic clock tower was once topped by a rotating, 20-ton medicine bottle.

One of the oldest anatomical theaters in the U.S. still in use was once the site of an infamous cadaver riot.

In the 19th century, this pit housed a fully grown black bear for the entertainment of visitors. Today there is a sculpture in tribute to the poor creature.

This memorial is dedicated to the legendary suffragette, who stepped in front of the king's horse during the Epsom Derby.

This meticulously extracted nervous system allegedly came from a 19th-century custodian who donated her body to science.