Places tkwhit02 Wants to Go

Eastern zen meets Western grit in these four little trees growing out of a rock on Lake Tahoe’s Nevada shore.

Over 100 million years ago, beach-bound dinosaurs left permanent marks on San Antonio's landscape.

With over 12,000 different species of plants, this botanical garden is Japan's oldest and most diverse.

This small museum gives visitors a chance to soak up the history of the "sponge capital of the world."

Hidden beneath the streets of London is a secret subway that only carried mail.

The two-cell building in Nebraska was briefly owned by a teenage boy and then a Hollywood dummy.

A creepy sculpture of a decapitated head invites viewers to see St. Louis through its empty eyes.

With nearly double the depth of the Grand Canyon, this Peruvian canyon is one of the deepest in the world.

The home of pigs, snakes, chameleons, and the alleged largest bunny in the United States.

Things aren't quite what they seem at this mind-bending museum.

This Seattle joint serves food inside an old train car once used by FDR.

This ancient shrine has been rebuilt every 20 years since the eighth century.

Crawl through the hole in the middle of this stone to break off a bad relationship or initiate a good one.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The huge collection of paintings of the American West is one of Denver's best-kept secrets.

The stunning interior of this Gothic church is covered in ornate gold details.

A cave 150 feet beneath Kansas City is the perfect climate for growing 10,000 delicate orchids.

An ever-growing literary collection housed in the apartment where the Russian author penned his final novel.

Giant Redwood-themed cafeteria operates under the golden rule, "Dine Free Unless Delighted."

A common entry point to the Griffith Observatory trail holds its own wonders.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

A small museum dedicated to the whimsical tool that turns sugar cookies into works of art.

Over 1.3 million confiscated wildlife products fill this macabre menagerie of illegal animal specimens.

The unedited photograph called "Bliss" has graced the screens of over a billion computers.