Speculator, New York
The Mini Route 66
The great American road trip, but smaller.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Speculator, New York
The great American road trip, but smaller.
Zavalla, Texas
A 19th century family buried their dead among the pines, beneath gravestones styled after ancient Scottish cairns.
Morda, England
The sculpture is made of more than 100,000 knives collected to raise awareness about violence.
Coreglia Antelminelli, Italy
The link between these two seemingly disparate themes is crucial to the history of this Tuscan hill town.
Langfang Shi, China
Where better to stay the night than inside a trio of ancient Chinese deities representing "the good life."
Golconda, Nevada
A hidden gem of a saloon in the middle of a ghost town.
Nunavut
The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.
Tecopa, California
This sculpture garden in Death Valley makes you feel like you've slipped into some alternate reality.
Barcelona, Spain
The studio of Catalonia's most famous theatrical designer remains exactly as he left it.
Falmouth, Massachusetts
Marigolds, rosemary, Madonna lilies, and the Virgin’s Bower decorate this Massachusetts sacred garden.
Cuiabá, Brazil
An obelisk marks the exact center of the continent, as per the calculations of the legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon.
Leiden, Netherlands
One of the Leiden's oldest pubs is also the birthplace of the Heineken star.
Marseille, France
For a brief time in 1960s France, families could climb into a tiny submarine and be pulled along an underwater journey.
Härjedalen, Sweden
This statue, deep in a Swedish forest, is all alone, just like the renowned recluse would have wanted.
Sakaiminato, Japan
This bridge is so steep it looks like a rollercoaster.
Canning, Nova Scotia
A converted cattle farm is now a hub of art and theater surrounded by nature.
Qianxi County, China
Thanks to the building of a life-giving reservoir, part of the Great Wall of China is now a dive site.
Pacific Ocean
The world's largest aggregation of great white sharks is at a mysterious spot in the middle of the ocean.
Boat Basin, British Columbia
Cougar Annie earned her nickname after shooting 60 cougars over the years as well as 80 black bears who threatened her garden.
Gaithersburg, Maryland
This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations
Three Forks, Montana
A collection of 16,000 antlers crammed beautifully into a small shed.
Jonesport, Maine
A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”
Halifax, England
Probably the smallest museum in the world, housed in a disused phone booth.
Swindon, England
There are hundreds of secret WWII bases hidden in British forests. Built to fight a Nazi invasion, they remained unknown for decades.