Places theamarant Wants to Go

This “living museum” at UCLA exhibits thousands of plant species from all over the world.

It's easy to forget what century it is as you wander this rustic homestead.

This curiosity shop contains a museum filled with bizarre, unique objects.

A delightful museum entirely dedicated to the tiny homes of dolls.

This hidden gem of a garden has one of the only surviving Victorian ferneries in America.

Hand-crafted tributes to a stray cat named "Room 8" now cover this LA elementary school.

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

An all-female order shares an ancient culinary art with visitors at their mountaintop monastery.

This traditional Japanese-style house doubles as one of James Turrell's colorful works of art.

The oldest living cultivated fruit tree in North America.

An enclosed rotunda at the Henry Art Gallery in which viewers can look up and see the uninterrupted sky.

This wooded grove of beautiful hand-built stone grottos is a hidden gem within a shuttered Franciscan monastery.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

Shop of curiosities with a dinosaur museum tucked in its basement.

A speakeasy takes on Chicago's drinking culture.

A lush green oasis in the middle of Chicago.

An antiquated German apothecary on Chicago's North Side.

A Parisian cemetery where the elite and artistic are interred beneath an eccentric collection of tombs.

A tree that defies gravity grows in an ancient ruin.

Town full of spiritualists, some of whom are mediums, is still in full swing after 130 years.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.