Places Amiee Maxwell Wants to Go

The largest ski jump in the Western Hemisphere hasn't hosted skiers in decades.

Largest outdoor staircase in the United States.

Accessible only at low tide, the deserted island is dotted with World War II ruins.

This astonishingly geometric cave has inspired everyone from Jules Verne to Pink Floyd.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

The world’s first museum dedicated to the history of childhood opened in Edinburgh in 1955.

A beautiful Greco-Roman structure houses a well once believed to have healing powers.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

A pub that is literally in the middle of nowhere, but continues to do business.

This Neolithic stone circle is the most complete of its kind in Scotland.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

Hidden in magnificent rolling countryside, see what may be the largest modern stone circle in the world at Wisconsin's very own "Stonehenge”

On the shores of Lake Superior, a small group of monks makes sacred sweets.

The site of an underground detonation of a megaton nuclear bomb in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A late-night restaurant empire was launched from this humble storefront.

Sandstone rock formations that look like they belong on the cover of a progressive rock album.

Water flowed out of the town's unusual tree stump fountain in the 1930s, and the well still runs today.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Where a guard killed nine German prisoners during one of the worst 20th-century POW camp massacres in U.S. history.

This granite monument at the site of an ill-conceived tourist attraction is built from the same stone as the Mormon Temple.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

Minimalist modern art on a repurposed military base in rural Texas.

A classic Route 66 landmark that was built with scrap lumber and is held together with kitsch and puns.