Places typosinkeye Wants to Go

Before he was America’s most famous preservationist, John Muir was an ingenious mechanical inventor.

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

This Big Sur waterfall drops 80 feet directly into the Pacific Ocean, and inspired the hillside house up top.

Every year, over 25,000 monarchs overwinter in Pacific Grove.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

A strange house built only at night, with rumored mystic inspiration.

A house of courtship where the Jazz Age's most storied lovers got their start.

The former home of the hard partying literary power couple is now one of the only museums devoted to their story.

The final resting place of the tragic king and queen of the Jazz Age is tucked away in a small Maryland graveyard.

The abandoned husk of a mental institution that failed to save a Jazz Age icon still sits nearly unchanged.

A giant pair of thick black glasses mark the tragic demise of a trio of rock and roll legends.

Ruined castle with subterranean vaulted Goblin Ha' or "Goblin Hall."

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The lake that fills and empties itself at random.

London's creepiest cemetery was once the site of dueling magicians and mobs of stake-carrying vampire hunters.

A perfectly running 230-year-old silver automaton and music box.

Rare collection of medieval books under lock and key.

The monster at the center of the Darwin Center Spirit Collection.

No one's quite sure where this quirky university tradition originated.

One of the coolest murals in Minneapolis.

A Borgesian work of art that may blur the line between fiction and reality a little too convincingly.

A whimsical sensor instrument for Minneapolitans to play on their walks to work.