Places wintermuteway Wants to Go

This 700-year-old street food market features baby octopus and soy donuts.

The remains of the first punk club in L.A.

A warning to the weak-kneed: This narrow bridge does its swinging eight stories high.

A small Richmond island dotted with the remnants of hundreds of years of history.

This historic mansion was built as a symbol of love between a husband and wife.

America's first public mental health facility.

This once-palatial plantation may have been the site where a draft of the Declaration of Independence was written.

There's a crumbling old mansion inside the Smithsonian National Zoo.

A historic estate packed with George Washington's heirlooms, and its own nuclear bunker.

Franciscan monks created a facsimile of the Holy Land for North Americans who couldn’t afford the trip overseas.

The country's oldest continually-operated mini golf course lies hidden in plain sight, eclipsed by one of D.C.'s most popular tourist attractions.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

With over 100 jam-packed rooms to explore plus elaborate tea services and events, the Mansion on O Street is a hidden treasure.

An eerie collection of the surviving structures from a past celebration of the future.

This truly palatial work of Communist-era architecture now sits crumbling on a Croatian beach.

An abandoned Depression-era zoo hidden just off the highway.

A small town in Rajasthan has been dubbed the "City of Stepwells," and Raniji ki Baori is the queen.

The tech giant built three enormous glass orbs in Seattle so employees could work inside a rainforest greenhouse.

Icelandic folklore says this giant boulder was ripped from the mountains and placed at its current location, where it became home to elves.

This Minsk museum has cat coffee, cat chess, cat art, and even a cat "staff," which visitors are free to take home.

This maze-like slot canyon is a unique gem within an already fascinating geological area.

The world's largest prehistoric copper mine had 30,000 animal bones scattered throughout the maze of passageways.

The first tunnel to be dug beneath a river, repurposed as an art and museum space.

A rare particle accelerator with a tremendous energy range is tucked away at Ohio University.