Places BOEK Wants to Go

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Nestled among the artifacts of the National Crafts Museum, this hidden gem offers hard-to-find regional foods from all over India.

Over 3 miles up in the Himalayas this pass is one of the highest drivable roads in the world.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

This peaceful Sikh gurudwara serves around 50,000 free meals every day within its gilded walls.

A centuries-old lookout post still sits atop a natural stone spire.

This hilltop warren of monastic dwellings is the result of centuries worth of Mongol attacks.

A single tree's 2,800 aerial roots give the appearance of a complete forest.

Sacred Indian temple that’s all monkey business.

The lovely lake that was naturally dammed, then naturally destroyed, then unnaturally saved.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

Now abandoned, the first public health hospital in the U.S. saw more than one million immigrants from around the world.

Hidden in plain sight on the Hudson River is an abandoned train station where nature has taken over.

On the Hudson resides one of the largest clocks in the world.

A simple plaque remembers an act of WWI terrorism that obliterated an island and forever scarred the Statue of Liberty.

The remains of a 19th century spring, and the site of an infamous unsolved murder.

This huge work of functional public art replaced a landfill in New Jersey's Meadowlands.

Along the Palisades skyline are the ruins of a large mansion built in 1911 and demolished in the 1930s.

A whimsical monument deep in this park commemorates the groups that helped build it.

The only remaining piece of hull of the most decorated US ship of WWII is this giant name plate.

This disastrous New Jersey safari park saw animal attacks, escapes, and disease before being abandoned.

The highest point in New Jersey is marked by a massive, if simply named, obelisk.

Whimsical artist house in the New Jersey woods.