Places bintopo Wants to Go

Located in the mountains of Nicaragua, one man has spent most of life beautifying a massive cliff by hand.

Housed in a 20th-century prison, this small museum recounts local Nicaraguan myths.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

Volcanic activity causes small pools of super-heated mud to boil furiously.

The youngest volcano in Central America.

This group of small islands on Lake Nicaragua formed after an eruption of the Mombacho volcano.

Historical marker at the spot where Bonnie and Clyde were killed.

A student art project turned into a neighborhood fixture in Toronto.

Canada’s infamous maximum-security prison, now open for guided tours with former guards.

This massive rock column in Canada is perched on a corner of its base, seeming to defy gravity.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

This nomadic monster has divided opinions as it prowls across Canada.

A neutrino detector built into the largest man-made underground cavity in the world.

The only remaining Cold War–era Minuteman II missile control center in Missouri.

The final resting place of the legendary outlaw.

An antique horse-drawn hearse provided French luxury for the dead in this Texan town.

Craggy concrete faces are hidden in the walls of this artificial cave along the San Antonio River.

A 2,500-pound wooden nickel makes this woodworking museum easy to spot from the road.

A Texas cave network is home to some of the world's most spectacular-looking and bizarrely named mineral formations.

The Man In Black grew up in a large agrarian community established by the federal government in the Great Depression.

An enormous, interactive museum with star-studded exhibits is surprisingly found deep in the Mississippi Delta.

The final resting place of an esteemed bear hunter and formerly enslaved man who led Theodore Roosevelt on a hunting trip that inspired the creation of the teddy bear.

A mysterious find dredged from Louisiana waters.