Places aswope1995 Wants to Go

An artificial crater field that trained astronauts for lunar exploration.

This oddly named town refuses to change its phallic moniker.

A 19th-century time capsule of travel, fiction, and historic texts still available to the public.

An ancient system of freshwater caves filled with animal bones, including that of species long-extinct.

The story of Two Guns, Arizona could easily be described as a Shakespearian tragedy on Route 66.

The remains of this hell for leather wild west town can still be found in the Arizona desert.

The atomic museum in the basement of this German castle displays long strands of replica uranium cubes.

This Brazilian palace island was once the site of the last grand ball before revolution.

This probably wasn't what Mao had in mind.

Festival of Perpetual Life and Rebirth.

This traditional festival celebrates a family of wooden giants that have survived Nazis, wars, and religion.

Both church and state get put to the torch in this annual festival in the "Bonfire Capital of the World."

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

In Egypt's expanding metro area, many of the neighbors are dead.

A motel dedicated to Southwestern nostalgia.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This sanguine boulevard was named after a deadly cowboy bar fight.

This pair of small sea rocks has been "wed" using rope and ancient Shinto tradition.

A French-Colonial era collection of taxidermy and wet specimens, secreted away in the National University of Hanoi.

The beautiful baroque library of the Hapsburg empire.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

Breathtakingly blue walls shimmer inside the "Glacier Behind the Town."

An amazing collection of wax anatomical models and terratological models.

Starship-temple contains 400 tons of drinking water and offers free Japanese lessons.