Places asdonkar Wants to Go

A 1850s pioneer village and interactive museum detail the history of the Wabash Canal in Indiana.

An enormous mural of a leaping orca painted on a fuel tank at a remote Antarctic base.

This synagogue in Madison, Wisconsin, is a historic architectural gem and one of the oldest surviving synagogue buildings in the United States.

A large kangaroo sculpture on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain

Neo-Romantic tower randomly locared in a pine forest offering a great view over the Vienna Basin.

America’s first living history museum of camping — a decade-by-decade museum of vintage campers, luxury tents, and Northwoods vacation history that guests can actually sleep in.

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

A pair of connected skyscrapers form this symbolic gateway.

A mining camp built around an unexpected occurrence of silver.

Giant pinnacles in the sun-scorched lands of Southern Utah have been nicknamed "white ghosts."

This hidden gem along the Utah-Arizona border is truly worth the rugged journey.

A well-preserved Ancestral Puebloan ruin tucked beneath a desert cliff.

A giant, Gilded Age mansion that once belonged to the beer baron of Milwaukee.

This natural spring is the winter home to the largest gathering of manatees in the world.

The home for all things Kool-Aid offers everything except a chance to actually enjoy the drink.

These sprawling military housing quarters from the 1960s are now defunct and hidden in plain sight on Malta’s Mediterranean coast.

An 18th-century hunting lodge turned haunted Baroque palace.

This church is named for one of the most dramatic tales in the early Christian church.

Despite the name, these small saltwater swimming pools have nothing to do with the Romans.

The Twisted Trees of Alticane are an unnerving grove of Quaking Aspen, apparently mutated from a single source, giving them a twisted and unnatural appearance.

The Jesus tree of Malta bears a striking resemblance to Christ on the cross.

The remains of a 1st-century aristocratic Roman town house featuring beautiful well-preserved mosaics.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.