Places bachrach44 Wants to Go

Built some 700 years ago, this Taíno ceremonial site features ball courts, petroglyphs, and evidence of ancient astronomy practices.

This colorful gate stands as an entrance to the walled city of Old San Juan.

The ruins of the first Spanish settlement in Puerto Rico.

This tiny home was originally a narrow alleyway.

These fossilized remains of an ancient saber-toothed cat inspired the mascot of Nashville's NHL team.

An echo chamber with a waterfall wrapped around its base at the Embassy of Canada in Washington, D.C.

Exact replica of the ancient monument, but much, much lighter.

A 19th-century shipwreck turned thriving coral reef.

Collection of fossils, plants, and ancient animals encased in amber.

Every animal in the torah taxidermied and crammed into a Brooklyn townhouse.

The largest and most famous wax anatomical collection anywhere in the world.

The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.

It would take 35 firetrucks to fill this enormous glacial pothole.

Board a mine car and descend the #190 slope 300 feet underground into the Clark Vein of coal.

An American industrialist hoped this nature preserve could help save the North American bison.

A large grotto built in the 16th century amidst Florence's famous Boboli gardens.

Explore the flooded remains of a limestone mine in Kentucky.

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

The walls and streets of the ancient city are peppered with penises.

The last moments of the ill-fated Pompeiians, frozen forever in plaster.

One of seven Jewish catacombs in Rome and one of only two open to the public.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

The oldest surviving synagogue in New York City is now a soaring art space.

These World War I shooting range tunnels are now haunted halls of underground graffiti accessed through the roots of a tree.