Places 85wombats Wants to Go

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

"The Most Boring Road in the State."

The honor of highest point in Michigan was almost given to the wrong peak before this mountain won out by 11 inches.

This missionary's legacy looms large over the Upper Peninsula of Michigan—literally.

The site where Michigan launched its first rocket into space lies abandoned in the dense woods along Lake Superior.

Iran's colorful terraces are a rare geological masterpiece.

There's a strange stone hoodoo towering atop a wooded hillside and no one is quite sure how it got there.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

The most southerly spot on New Zealand's South Island is home to surreally shaped, permanently mangled trees.

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

Petroglyphs, bird watching, and a 100-year-old Ranch in one location.

This network of roads is one of the most unique Etruscan creations ever discovered.

The world's first disc golf course has the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a neighbor.

This abandoned mine offers a glimpse at what life was like for those who came to Alaska seeking Gold Rush riches.

One of the world’s longest pedestrian suspension bridges.

Of the many Jesuit missions in South America, this complex is one of the best preserved.

At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

This remarkably well-preserved Incan city managed to survive the conquistadores.

Please don’t anchor your boat onto the Department of Defense’s underwater data cables.

These boots are made for selfies.

A tower marking the spot where Yugoslavia began its resistance against the invading Nazis stands neglected, but not quite forgotten.

The abandoned "Ghost Mansion" was left to decay in the mountains of Northern Italy.

This charming railway is one of the oldest and steepest funiculars in England.