Lahaina, Hawaii
Pu'u Kilea (Olowalu Petroglyphs)
Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Lahaina, Hawaii
Images chiseled into the basalt here date back an estimated 300 years.
Seattle, Washington
The Denny Substation has been called "the coolest substation in the world" and sits in a densely populated Seattle neighborhood.
Cologne, Germany
A church filled with the bones of hundreds of virgins martyrs—or so they say.
Cologne, Germany
The final resting place for a wealthy Roman family, this tomb might be the best preserved of its kind outside Italy.
Cologne, Germany
How did a lighthouse wind up in the middle of this landlocked German city?
Cologne, Germany
This small condiment museum makes all manner of mustards with a 200-year-old mill.
LaPlace, Louisiana
All that remains of this small town is its mass grave and a myth of a voodoo priestess who predicted its demise.
Edinburgh, Scotland
This Roman relic was discovered in Scotland by a mudlarking ferryman.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Every birth, death, and marriage is recorded in these color-coded leather-bound books.
Elberta, Utah
This lava formation earned its whimsical name from the log-like formation of it stones.
Provo, Utah
This large, castle-like structure is hidden amid the mountains on the grounds of the Utah State Hospital.
Redding, California
This ultra-modern California span is actually a titanic solar clock in disguise built by famed architect Santiago Calatrava.
Lincoln, Montana
A collection of huge, site-specific sculptures sitting in the Montana woods.
Crescent City, California
A lighthouse built to save lives that took quite a few with its treacherous location.
Glen Ellen, California
The haunting ruins of Jack London's dream house.
Calistoga, California
California's own majestic geyser is powered by a subterranean volcano.
San Francisco, California
The restored and active Victorian-era final resting place of San Francisco.
Cedar Rapids, Iowa
One of just a few cities in the world to base their center of government on an island. Others: Paris and Osaka.
Anamosa, Iowa
Remnants of a quarry company town still stand on the banks of the Wapsipinicon River.
Dyersville, Iowa
A pop-culture attraction outside of Dyersville, Iowa, hits a home run.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
A hidden oasis in the heart of Minneapolis is also an Important Bird Area.
Sibley, Iowa
The highest point in Iowa, while not that impressive to mountain states, has earned its own monuments.
Fergus Falls, Minnesota
A riverside park built around the ruins of a massive dam that collapsed in 1909.
Montrose, South Dakota
A roadside collection of over-sized iron creations that are a bit more macabre than most.