Places 6002 Wants to Go

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

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

A hands-on traveling collection of the innovative devices of yesteryear.

This wondrous waterfall rushing down a green-covered mountain wasn't discovered until 2010.

The old Route 66 town straddling Texas and New Mexico died along with the Main Street of America.

An unusually designed bridge from the 1920s was built to withstand the tides and winds of Maine.

At the center of an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean is a deep chasm ringed by tall waterfalls.

A shining, cold, black organ lies in San Francisco's financial district.

The world's largest and most outstanding marl lake regularly changes color.

A little-known hot spring haven right below the highway.

If a glacial river suddenly diving into a sheer chasm via a dramatic, multi-stage waterfall isn't peak Iceland, it's certainly close.

This tiny river island switches sovereignty every six months as part of a rare, centuries-old agreement.

This lake in the Cascades lives up to its name, disappearing down a hole every spring.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

An open-air museum in a mountain valley features works designed to blend in with—and disintegrate back into—their natural surroundings.

A gigantic sculpture garden is packed with innovative oddities.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

This secluded aqua waterfall in the Grand Canyon is the perfect swimming hole, and the Havasupai tribe's fiercely protected natural wonder.

With well over 130 falls and cascades to brag about, Hamilton, Ontario has earned its stripes as the waterfall capital of the world.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

Offering commanding views of the California coastline, this restaurant was a hub for the artists and bohemians of Big Sur.

This funicular railway rumbles along for a mile up the nearly vertical face of Chattanooga’s Lookout Mountain.

Natural stone arches form a walkable "cathedral" at low tide, then disappear entirely when the water returns.

A winding, cliffside stretch of road overlooking the Delaware River.