Places carlyagartner Wants to Go

The largest cave in Bosnia and Herzegovina is home to some the richest subterranean biodiversity in the world.

This abandoned airplane hanger is said to have once been a top secret launch facility.

Bridge that died in war and was resurected.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

The world's most remote permanent settlement on an active volcano.

A grueling 699-step stairway to a heavenly view of the island of Saint Helena.

The entire history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program is painted on an enormous roadside water tank.

This 47-foot chile pepper sculpture welcomes Scoville heat unit obsessed tourists to the Big Chile Inn.

Inside this small museum resides a strange mix of miniature collections passed down over time.

Apparently, the whole cosmos emanates from this plain concrete tower.

This bird-shaped rock formation defies gravity, time, and classification.

The most powerful laboratory radiation source in the world pulses with 1,000 times the electricity of a lightning bolt.

This popular pitstop lives up to its name.

Owned by Native American women, this brewery is a celebration of indigenous culture in the American Southwest.

A frozen oasis lies beneath the scorching New Mexico desert.

This museum started as a collection of Manhattan Projects and continues to add exhibits as they are declassified.

The world's first commercial spaceport is a disappointment of cosmic proportions.

A sprawling collection of over 106,000 toys from around the world.

A blacklight journey through a celestial art exhibit.

Its history includes dinosaur fossils, cattle rustlers, Georgia O'Keeffe, and a mythical giant rattlesnake named Vivaron.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

Wee (and not so wee) footprints that insects and reptiles of the Paleozoic Era left behind.

This quirky hot springs town known to locals as "T or C" was named after a radio show.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.