Places Wendy Jones Wants to Go

Philadelphia boasts one of the best — and most often overlooked — traditional Japanese gardens in North America.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

This lower Manhattan bar is set up in an old bank vault that rests beneath a skyscraper that hides even more historic splendor.

Stroll through a wonderland of stupendous moss-covered trees.

A beautiful Victorian-era cemetery, complete with a miniature village.

This massive library holds what was once the largest book collection in the world.

Here, at the “world’s longest art gallery,” you’ll find forty miles of ancient petroglyphs and pictographs.

A semi-scholarly approach to sex.

One man's homage to the sun continues to grow like a glass fractal.

Enormous lake at the bottom of a unique cave system.

A winding path built in secret on the edge of the continent.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”

Medicinal spa created from the mineral-rich runoff of a geothermal power plant

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.

The land is full of geologic eye candy, such as otherworldly spires, mushroom-shaped hoodoos, and prehistoric fossils.

Paranormal experiences in this hotel's room 217 led Stephen King to write "The Shining."

A whimsical and twisted animatronic monster tour beneath the streets of Berlin.

The ancient dwellings of the Puebloans, located in the cliffs of majestic mesas.

Abandoned railway line circling the city of Paris.

Explore the largest pure gypsum deposit in the world, and go dune sledding while you're at it.

A collection of oddities including Dr. Kevorkian's suicide device, the Thanatron.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

A tour of underground Berlin takes you through WWII air raid shelters and tunnels used to smuggle people out of East Germany.