Places apriline13 Wants to Go

As the oldest natural history museum in the Americas, these halls contain everything from dinosaur bones to biological samples collected by Lewis and Clark.

A Mysterious Masonic tomb in San Luis Obispo.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

The mysterious, fantastical woodland inspiration for "The Lord of the Rings."

A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.

Tiny museum with unusual specimens.

A friendly monster lurks outside the State Library Victoria.

A church made of steel.

The largest Spanish artifact built in the Philippines and one of the oldest underground reservoirs in the world.

Marikina's record-breaking loafers.

A melting pot of Asian-Pacific art features one symbolic sculpture from each of 20 different nations.

Iron Butterfly's personal collection of footwear.

Church organ in the Philippines constructed out of bamboo.

Collection of paintings by the celebrated Blanco Family.

The oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die.

An abandoned guano-mining city in the South Pacific.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

The oldest museum in Borneo is a cornucopia of rare taxidermy and human skulls.

Two thousand feline artifacts fill Malaysia's "Cat City."

This monument marks where the exact middle of the world used to be.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

The steep slope known as “Ob Hill” overlooks an Antarctic research station.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

A vertical tube that allows you to see what's going on underneath the Antarctic sea ice.