Places bluestorm1738 Wants to Go

This display showcases the culinary equivalent of steel-toe boots during World War I.

For millennia, explorers were obsessed with discovering the source of the Nile—is this small mountain stream really the answer?

An impressive piece of infrastructure that seems outsized when considering it serves an island with a population of less than 300.

A private home envelops the ruins of this 13th-century priory.

This collection of Neolithic monuments make up one of The U.K.'s richest archeological landscapes.

This beautiful 14th-century castle perched on a promontory overlooks the Bay of Trieste.

The oldest covered railroad bridge still standing in the United States.

This grand building inspired by classic Islamic architecture is home to a seat of provincial government.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

An eighth-century rock-cut cave temple in the middle of Pune.

You have to know where to look in this rather ordinary-looking square to find hints of its past as a dissidents' cemetery.

A sandstone lamp post in Mumbai's business district honors the war efforts of the Port Trust and its employees who fell during World War I.

A moving and macabre World War I-era painting by the great artist Otto Dix.

This impressive midden of scallop shells apparently all comes from a single fishing company.

This unique creation was made by the largest manufacturer of Christmas bulbs in 1946 to honor those returning from World War II.

After Sierra Leone's railways shut down in 1974, a collection of engines and other artifacts spent decades hidden away in this old workshop—now a museum.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

The ruins of the humble house of one of Mexico's most iconic revolutionaries.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

Jesus turns into vines inside this chapel.

This quarter-mile tunnel under the Bluff in Pittsburgh bends at a 45-degree angle.

A tumbling waterfall near a narrow passage that was used to herd cattle for hundreds of years.

Europe's only Temple of Mithras located in a natural cave.

One of the last remnants of an 18th-century fort in the business district of Mumbai.