Places Bkern Wants to Go

High atop the Eiffel Tower is a small apartment built exclusively to entertain the science elite and make the rest of Paris jealous.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

Paris' linguistic guide to the international language of, yes, love.

This iconic Parisian bookstore doubles as the "Tumbleweed Hotel" for traveling writers.

Notorious artist squat renovated into legal studios.

A view-altering observatory at the University of Texas.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

One part antique store, one part curiosities hodge-podge.

The oldest cemetery in New Orleans, resting peacefully for over 200 years now.

The final resting place of New Orleans' most famous voodoo priestess.

Believe It or Not, Ripley once called this chiseled mountainside “New York’s Mount Rushmore”.

Three acres of mythology-inspired sculptures are visible from the highway.

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

An abandoned 19th century quarry in the middle of the woods, remade by unnamed wanderers into a massive series of rock thrones.

The world's largest kaleidoscope, designed by a 1960s psychedelic artist.

This stone gatehouse was once the entrance to a historic mountain resort, and it had a cameo in a cheesy cult horror movie.

"A hideous albatross in the Hudson River Valley."

One man's swirling six-acre monument of stone.

This old cement mine has been used as everything from a mushroom farm to a recording studio.

The oldest certified bowling alley in the United States is in the basement of this century-old bar.

This little barrel-shaped cottage by Lake Superior was once a cartoonist's summer retreat.

Winter weather reveals a large Italian marble crucifix drowned beneath Lake Michigan.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

This shallow cave got its name from copious amount of human bones found inside.