Places peggah Wants to Go

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

When ecosystems collide in the arid Southwest.

Giant, friendly pelicans in Central London, the most unlikely of places.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Northern Ireland's Brobdingnagian stepping stones.

The final resting place of soldiers' loyal canine companions.

In 2010, Nicolas Cage purchased two plots in this cemetery using one to construct this strange pyramid mausoleum.

Belly up to the bar in Cowtown, don't forget to buy some boots.

The picturesque birthplace of Icelandic democracy is drenched in the blood of its brutal past.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

From a neon Rapunzel to a bike traffic meter to a street fair color scheme, the most opened drawbridge in the US is a veritable art gallery.

Synagogue built from the stones of Solomon's temple contains the golem of Prague.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This valley of hot springs and boiling mud pots is home to the record-holding "Geysir," which originated the English word.

This ritzy Italian market is built around a statue of an unforgiven heretic who was burned for his belief in an endless universe.

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This historic "City of the Dead" lies prominently in the center of New Orleans' famous Garden District.

A marvel of Byzantine engineering under the streets of Istanbul.

The tradition of open-air secondhand and antiquarian bookselling in Paris dates back to the Renaissance.

There aren't too many operational funiculars around, but Pittsburgh has two!

The most famous location in China was home to whole dynasties worth of imperial rulers.

A monument to the three wars that led to German unification towers within a Berlin traffic circle.

After nearly 60 years, there's still a bear at Paddington Station looking for help.

The mysterious wonder of an underground waterfall is illuminated by multicolored lights.