Places 85wombats Wants to Go

A stargazing sculpture made from the ruins of an iconic telescope.

One of the most well-preserved temples of ancient Egypt.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

Home to the longest wooden escalators in the world.

The ruins of this monumental city founded by the first Roman Emperor are strangely overlooked by most travelers.

The tower in this 1,000-year-old mud-brick village seems to vibrate for no apparent reason.

Play everything you see at a museum dedicated to a town's historic organ industry.

This exceptional home was a 32-year labor of love by a man determined to build his wife the most beautiful stone house in the world.

Thousands of majestic trumpeter swans fill this park, sounding distinctly like a certain brass instrument.

The oldest scientifically dated tree in Europe lives on a remote cliff.

On top of a sheet metal business in Juneau stand nearly a dozen charming Wizard of Oz statues.

This forgotten beach house built to look like a Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece overlooks a hidden beach.

The world's largest public collection of PEZ memorabilia.

A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

This sculpture gallery is home to magnificent beasts made of scrap metal and found objects.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

The abandoned fishing village was swept right into the sea.

The skeletal remains of the famous hominid "Lucy" were found at this spot.

A historic hill of tall tales, with one rather special tree.

See wolves, coyotes, and arctic foxes in a natural environment smack in the middle of New York State.

Gnomes have their very own bonsai-landscaped settlement on a university campus.

This 1,300-year-old marker is one of the finest and most complete early Christian crosses in Scotland.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.