Places bluestorm1738 Wants to Go

A historic cavernous cistern lies hidden behind a wall at San Marino’s stamp and coin museum.

The preserved wheel ruts of El Camino Real de los Tejas, an 18th-century Spanish colonial road across America's Southwest.

This grandiose staircase was part of the revival of a medieval Spanish architectural style combining Christian and Islamic influences.

The remote graves of a Scottish family who died of thirst while attempting to reach St. George.

This abandoned building, which is the second-largest structure on the Maltese island of Comino, has a complicated past.

A multicolored mineral mound dribbles piping hot spring water right off the side of a highway.

After several centuries as the home of coastal defenses, this island is full of history—and maybe ghosts.

A single block in this stone staircase to the temple is mysteriously always wet.

A stunning example of traditional salt production set against a dramatic volcanic landscape.

The grave of William Rosenberg, founder of Dunkin Donuts (now Dunkin') with shops coast to coast in the US and 42 countries worldwide.

Get to know the plant-based fare of Chinese Buddhist monks.

A 17-foot-tall cutout of the Texas-born actor stands alongside the highway.

Here lies Hattori Hanzō, a samurai who is remembered as a legendary ninja in today’s popular culture.

This octagonal rotary jail built in 1889 now serves as a visitor's center.

Locals pay their respects at a shrine to soccer player Diego Maradona—which claims to contain a real lock of his hair.

Human figures and faces are carved into the sandstone surrounding this cave in Czechia.

One of the youngest whisky distilleries in Scotland may also be the country’s oldest.

Two geologically young and nearly circular volcanic subsidence craters, each about a half-mile in diameter, abruptly break the nearly featureless Snake River Plain.

Feast your eyes on the centuries-old statues of the judges of hell.

Indiana's first constitution was drafted in the shade of this elm tree in the summer of 1816.

The urinal, known by many names and designated as a Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site for its simple and functional design, stands as a testament to old gay history in Norway.

Legend holds that St. Paul was flogged for preaching Christianity at this pillar.

This restaurant is devoted to celebrating Appalachia's cuisine.

One Maltese man’s hobby became an extensive collection of restored automobiles, motoring paraphernalia, and antiques.