Places bertshetler Wants to Go

A midnight snack that lights up the night.

The world's only managed flock of mute swans was established as a factory for monk meat but is now an adorable sanctuary.

These ancient sunken lanes were naturally tunneled into the soft ground by countless footsteps.

Medieval town turned hippie commune, once home to the secret foreskin of Jesus Christ.

Naturally preserved bodies are eerily staged throughout the crypt in varying poses.

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

England's oldest surviving hedge maze has been confusing visitors for over 300 years.

No one knows who created the statues or if they are arranged properly—let alone the artwork's real name.

The world's largest grapevine has produced a delicious harvest at Hampton Court Palace for almost 250 years.

Cave where bat-eating snakes hang down from the ceiling.

One man's fulfilled dream of living on an artificial island made of recycled plastic bottles.

Seattle's own bad art museum located inside Cafe Racer.

What's that on the side of that building? Va Va Voom, it's Bettie!

A "sinister, whimsical, tacky, and really orange" public art installation hidden under a Seattle bridge.

This popular bar has been blurring the line between normal and edgy for more than 75 years.

Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

These passages carved from the Antarctic ice hold strange shrines to the harsh southernmost climes.

Southern Ocean waters and glacial forces transform the Antarctic ice into these stunning bridges and caves.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

A mysterious ancient network of thousands of perfectly straight lines stretching across miles of Bolivian desert.

Giant statue of a disembodied head.