Peebles, Ohio
The Great Serpent Mound
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Peebles, Ohio
The largest earthwork effigy in the world.
Chicxulub, Mexico
The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.
Baker, Nevada
The longest living non-clonal organisms on Earth.
Boulder, Colorado
The clock that sets them all.
Sandy, Utah
Step into the cool deep past and unknown future of who begat who.
Lovell, Wyoming
Native Americans built this circle of stones, which was used to predict astronomical events.
Nye, Nevada
Potential high level nuclear waste storage site for the next 10,000 years and beyond.
Mounana, Gabon
The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.
Hutchinson, Kansas
Home to Hollywood history and a very special salt crystal.
Peru
Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.
London, England
A musical composition 1000 years in length plays at the Trinity Buoy Wharf in London.
San Francisco, California
A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.
Atlanta, Georgia
The world's first time capsule lies behind a welded steel door in Atlanta.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
When flour explodes, it's not a pretty sight.
Los Angeles, California
World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
London, England
There's an exclusive Beefeaters pub hidden in the Tower of London.
New Orleans, Louisiana
A treasure trove of rare and exquisitely detailed antiques
Taos, New Mexico
Reproductions of nine banned oil paintings coyly hidden behind a curtain in a New Mexico conference room.
San Francisco, California
A tiny theater hidden in an alley plays a constant stream of short silent films for anyone willing to peer through the peephole.
Los Angeles, California
A faux European lane smack dab in downtown L.A.
Las Vegas, Nevada
James Turrell's total color immersion art installation, hidden on the top floor of a luxury handbag shop.
Indianapolis, Indiana
A modern-day wunderkammer dedicated to Indianapolis history, Afrofuturism, and musical vibrations.
Fremont, California
The old Niles Canyon Aqueduct in the San Francisco Bay Area is a bemusing and secret trail through nature for wayward travelers.