Places 6002 Wants to Go

The world's largest flat-topped mountain.

An ethereal glowing blue ocean cave in Croatia.

A chain of 16 wondrous lakes formed as a result of the gradual dissolution of soluble layers of bedrock.

The folks at the Devil's Rope Museum want you to get hooked on barbed wire history.

It's a tiny roadside universe of welded folk-art creatures built by one man who turned farm-repair welding into an imaginative anything goes sculpture garden that you stumble upon by accident and walk away remembering.

Ruins of this late 19th-century mining camp are right on Nevada State Route 266

A Norman castle near Wales that has been in ruins for the last 600 years

An eclectic collection of mathematical items that include puzzles, art, calculating devices, and historical reproductions.

A little slice of 19th century France tucked away in the Colorado mountains.

A granite memorial to three men swallowed by the Arctic—Andrée, Strindberg and Fraenkel—explorers that attempted one of the most ambitious (and disastrous) North Pole expeditions in history.

Historical marker that is a mini replica of the original in New York.

A mile-long, three-tiered cave hidden under a Bahamian island, complete with cathedral-like formations, bat colonies, and graffiti going back to the 1870s.

An Outer Banks museum devoted to the thousands of shipwrecks resting off North Carolina’s coast.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.

This old radio building from the 1930s inspired the WSQK radio station featured in the last season of “Stranger Things.”

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

A James Turrell Skyspace located in the mountains of Colorado.

Visit Morris, the Horse, the symbol of the small town of Tryon since 1928!

Originally a mission, what may be the oldest building on Maui is now a museum of the island’s history.

In a beautiful open space on the north side of the Palmer Divide sits one solitary 19th-century gravestone in a copse of trees.

Whether or not you take the 72-ounce steak challenge, there’s plenty of history, fun and Texas-style food at this legendary stop along Route 66.

Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.

A rich collection honors the iconic American artist, down to the jacket worn in his “Freedom of Speech” painting.

Relics designed to contain and conceal Yugoslavian submarines.