Places toniamonkey Wants to Go

Every color in the rainbow awaits.

A spiritual retreat in the heart of Los Angeles offers stunning gardens and a labyrinth to lose yourself in.

This semi-secret garden in south Seattle emulates a traditional Japanese garden using the plants of the Pacific Northwest.

Costumed elves and mountain bikers co-exist peacefully at this abandoned Christmas-themed adventure park.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

This series of Scottish caves has no clear purpose other than baffling historians.

A clear blue swimming hole with hidden caves, still unexplored.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

At the crypt of St. Mary of Eulogies and the Dead you are left alone to ponder mortality among piles of skulls.

Enjoy an overnight at an old haunted B&B site of the Borden family murders.

Surreal riveted sea forts once protected the Kent shores from German attack.

Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

This quirky curiosity shop takes its cues from the world's bazaars.

The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

The abandoned Japanese amusement park once loomed as a dystopian Disneyland.

A state-of-the-art medical facility from the Imperial era is now a derelict ruin.

The final resting place for the remains of 143 Habsburg royalty.

These azure waters were thought to lead to the Mayan Underworld.

Make your reservation to have coffee with some kitties.

Rome’s legendary peephole vista is also a former Crusader stronghold.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.