Places Travel Maven Wants to Go

Austin’s first public mural is a 50-year-old psychedelic time capsule where armadillos, musicians, outlaws and local legends hide an entire city’s history in plain sight.

Home to the largest urban bat colony in North America, estimated at 1.5 million bats.

Egyptian Revival movie palace abandoned for decades and restored in 2013.

One of Auckland's oldest cemeteries was partially demolished during the construction of a major highway in the 1960s. 

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

This sheep farm has been forever transformed since being built for “The Hobbit” film series.

This small stone building, the final work of a renowned artist, offers a peaceful environment with radiant, colorful glass windows .

East meets West in this Japanese-style garden featuring plants native to Maine’s Mount Desert Island.

A beautiful and original museum dedicated to art of the 1930s in France and beyond.

This eclectic, mosaic-clad home includes a bamboo ping-pong loft and a "Whispermaphones" intercom.

Along this wire fence, travelers have been leaving a particular memento since 2012.

This fantastical waterfall is hidden in a cave located in a cracked cliff.

One of the oldest living oak trees in the Southeast.

The world’s first penitentiary, meant to be humane, drove men insane.

An acoustic anomaly with a mysterious cause sits in the heart of Tulsa.

Where beautiful signs live on forever.

The remnants of an early American attempt at missile defense.

The very first subway station in New York City is beautiful, decked out in chandeliers, and ... abandoned?

Hundreds of glow-in-the-dark objects light up a museum in a historic zinc mine.

Flashy signs from Las Vegas’s past find their final resting place at this unusual graveyard.

An experimental, automotive replica of Stonehenge.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

European castle ruins in an American state park are actually the product of death and grief.

This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.