Places WilliamRCrichton Wants to Go

Most-visited and most-photographed slot canyon in the American Southwest.

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

The sound of swaying stalks in this stunning grove has been named a governmentally recognized sound.

Rippling sand dunes frozen in the Arizona rock.

This iconic L.A. bookshop is housed in an abandoned bank—both symbolic and chic.

A 300-year-old tea shop that brought tea to the English people, not to mention the Queen herself.

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

Rare recess caves fill this unbelievably beautiful Ohio park.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

In Florence's great Duomo, a 26 foot fresco honors a mercenary famous for attacking Florence.

An incredible menagerie of more than 3 million taxidermied animals at the oldest science museum in Europe.

Over 50 exquisite hand-painted Renaissance maps decorate a Medici storage room.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The middle finger of modernity.

Secret refuge and museum of the Duke of Florence.

Breathtaking and huge 430 year old maps of Italy.

Decaying military base deactivated in the 70s is now visited by urban explorers and military enthusiasts.