Places traceyjaynne Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

A crumbling wizard is one of the final reminders of a roadside Middle Earth.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

Every weekend, the parking lot of this Buddhist temple turns into a Thai street-food paradise.

Church and home-museum of a 1920s female revivalist preacher with a very sordid past.

A water tower shaped like a giant coffee pot looms over a small Swedish village in Central California.

An underground mansion with fruit-bearing trees and grapes growing beneath the surface of central California.

Left untouched since a double murder-suicide in the 1960s, Los Feliz murder mansion remains a neighborhood mystery.

This weird abode has inspired everything from the "House on Haunted Hill" to a robot hunter's pad.

A 10 million-ton rock once worshiped by the Tahamies Indians, accessed by an astounding staircase.

Home to 23 voluptuous and instantly lovable sculptures by one of Latin America's most celebrated artists.

A room in New York City that contains 250 cubic yards of dirt.

The competition: breathe deeply as long as you can.

Plot your trip through the city on the sidewalk.

Wall Street has a new heroine, a bronze statue of a small but fierce girl.

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

The impeccably spiced roast pork buns at this bakery are worth the wait.

Order scoops of pandan, lychee, and black sesame at this family-run institution.

Avoid gangster interaction while window-shopping.

Sip creative cocktails in the former vault of the Riggs Bank.

Hidden amid a collection of trails is the site of a tragic crash.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

A cabin completely covered in coffee mugs, where visitors are welcome to leave one of their own—if they can find an empty nail.