Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

Bigfoot prints, Feejee mermaids, and haunted dolls on display in a tiny North Carolina town.

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

The inspiration for H.P. Lovecraft's horror stories and Batman's Arkham Asylum is now a condominium complex.

A subterranean ice warehouse that has lain hidden beneath central London for over a century is now open to the public.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Once a mortuary that held the remains of Buffalo Bill, this Denver hotspot is now a death-fixated restaurant.

A hidden network of subterranean passageways lies tangled beneath Indianapolis' bustling City Market.

A walk-in working camera obscura produces 360-degree live images of the San Francisco coast.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

This knobby, drooping New Orleans oak is a favorite place both for climbing and for meeting giraffes.

Macabre astrological automaton clock dating to the late 1400s.

Florida might be at its most surreal in this museum devoted to the famed Spanish artist.

A huge musical sculpture and other art installations on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grounds.

The longest continuous lava tube in the continental U.S. offers 2.5 miles of dark explorations for the adventurous.

The largest hot spring in the United States is, as the name suggests, a stunning show of natural color.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

This geothermal hot spring hides beneath a slowly growing mineral dome.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

This natural wonder drops 16 stories straight down through rare flora and streaming waterfalls.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

360° views of the city plus five floors of optical illusions and hands-on science.

One of the oldest used bookstores in the U.S. has been selling antiquarian treasures since 1825.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

This London pub hides a peculiar secret: a recreation of the rooms shared at 221b Baker Street by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.