Places bertshetler Wants to Go

The granite head appears to be deep in thought and half buried in the ground.

This mysterious taxidermy man-beast of the seven seas resides at the Banff Trading Post.

This super-sized statue is the only public memorial to the deal that ended America's neutrality during World War II.

11,500 year old little girl found buried in an ancient fire pit.

Tens of thousands of ancient rock carvings hidden in the heart of a French national park.

Amidst medieval and baroque buildings, five human-sized gherkins stand tall.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

A colorful collection of scavenged glass bells decorates this Canadian ranch.

Every fall this lake mysteriously drains, like a bathtub with the plug pulled out.

A surviving remnant of the thick ice mass that once mantled most of Western Canada's mountains.

Thousand-year-old trees tower within one of the world's only inland temperate rainforests.

For just a few bucks, this Iowa funicular will let you feel like an 1800s fat cat.

The United States’s oldest funicular railway glides up and down a steep Pittsburgh street.

An unusual and beautiful form of mass transit serves the city's steepest neighborhoods.

Built in 1911, the Tees Transporter Bridge is one of only six transporter bridges still in operation.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

A century-old cabin off of Highway 30 touts an unusual construction material: dinosaur bones.

This historic pub has maintained much of its 1906 decor, including a small sequestered room for women, where orders were slipped through a tiny window.

A little-known ruin with a convoluted history and a fascinating latrine drainage system.

Astonishing rock formations dot the Brimham Moor landscape.

The photographs of "fairies" that fooled much of the world (including the creator of Sherlock Homes) were taken at this English stream.

The largest preserved walking dragline excavator in Western Europe.