Melbourne, Australia
Old Melbourne Gaol
Once housing children next to hardened criminals this historic jail once displayed Ned Kelly's skull until it was stolen.
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Places I've been
Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Hyder, Alaska
Hyder
The easternmost town in Alaska can only be accessed from Canada.
Prelate, Saskatchewan
Great Sand Hills
These little-known sands dunes are a geological anomaly in Saskatchewan's southern prairies.
Wellington, New Zealand
Wellington Cable Car
New Zealand's only running funicular railway.
Blimbing, Indonesia
Kampung Tridi
Bright Indonesian villages painted in a rainbow of competing color schemes.
Malang, Indonesia
Kampung Warna-Warni Jodipan (Village of Color)
This Indonesian village was revitalized by a vibrant rainbow paint job.
Clark County, Nevada
Valley of Fire
The drama of nature in full effect in this Nevada State Park.
Bangkok, Thailand
Erawan Shrine
A shrine built to combat the bad karma of a commercial venture.
Sydney, Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
Come for the flowers, stay for the bats!
Port Renfrew, British Columbia
Fairy Lake Bonsai Tree
Defying all odds, this lonely little tree found a home on a log sticking out of a Canadian lake.
United States / Canada
United States–Canada Border Slash
The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.
Keeseville, New York
Ausable Chasm
This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.
Montreal, Québec
Biosphere of Montreal
Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.
Montreal, Québec
Notre-Dame-des-Neiges Cemetery
Canada's largest graveyard boasts a lot of noteworthy artifacts as well as its own computerized mapping service.
Montreal, Québec
Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours Chapel (The Sailors' Church)
Small ship votives hang from the vaulted ceiling of this port-side church with a Latin inscription on the wall.
Ottawa, Ontario
Ottawa Jail Hostel
This inexpensive lodging house was once a prison notorious for its inhumane practices.
Washington, D.C.
Willard Hotel
Legend has it that President Grant’s frequent drinking in the lobby gave rise to the term “lobbyist.”
Permanently Closed
Seattle, Washington
Seattle's Ramps to Nowhere
Activists are fighting to preserve these unfinished highway ramps as a tribute to the citizen revolt that halted their construction decades ago.
Abang, Indonesia
Tirta Gangga Water Palace
Sacred waters rescued from the wrath of a volcano.
Amiens, France
The Head of St. John the Baptist at Amiens Cathedral
The encased skull that is widely believed to belong to St. John the Baptist.
Seneca Falls, New York
Wesleyan Chapel
What remains of the simple red brick chapel where the women's rights movement began.
Rochester, New York
The George Eastman Museum
The home, museum, and death site of Kodak's influential founder.
Seneca Falls, New York
When Anthony Met Stanton
This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House
A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.
