Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

This massive store is home to an eccentric collection of vintage, retro, and peculiar goods.

Countless grotesque faces stare out from this eerie Prague art wall.

Oregon's unexpected high desert, displaying layers of time in a colorful show.

Every autumn, this hillside is ablaze with red summer cypress.

One part local history, 99 parts gruesome haunted house.

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

Quite simply the largest tree in the world (by volume).

A book collector's dream, this Toronto bookstore has the world's first "Biblio-Mat," a random book vending machine.

A surreal museum of extraordinary industrial objects.

The largest earthwork effigy in the world.

If Hello Kitty were Mickey Mouse, this would be Disneyland.

The "Seinfeld" diner.

An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.

A haunting collection of the vanished and disappearing natural world.

The magical, mossy forest that inspired 'Princess Mononoke.'

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

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

Tour the sci-fi-esque reality of governmental disease management.

Sniff the Titan Arum's rotting flesh.

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

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Museum preserving torture methods from the past.

Giant, natural amphitheaters made of delicate geological formations called "hoodoos."

No one knows how this Pacific Northwest spruce tree came to have so many trunks.