Places Ckorear512 Wants to Go

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

Antarctica's bustling metropolis, originally established by Richard E. Byrd.

The remains of a doomed Antarctic plane, buried beneath layers of ice and snow, await those willing to do a bit of digging.

Russian Orthodox church built on an Antarctic island.

The world's largest neutrino telescope searches for secrets of the universe at the South Pole.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The best place to send your postcards home from Antarctica.

One of the world's southernmost bars.

An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.

Natural time capsule containing an alien ecosystem.

Hundreds of enormous icebergs drift through this waterway every year.

During World War II, blimps were a key part of the United States' defense against German U-boats—this building could house a dozen of the armed airships.

It took years to decode its mysterious messages.

One of two identical monuments marking the sites of military training encampments in Peoria, Illinois.

A collection of 11 million buttons illustrates the human toll of the Holocaust.

The world's third-largest scale model of the planets.

These Depression-era WPA sculptures have made a couple of stops over the years.

The world's largest covered wagon is piloted by a giant Lincoln lawyer.

A massive bur oak tree believed to be some 500 years old is the centerpiece of this quiet urban greenspace.

Steel remnants of a bridge make up a unique sculpture along the banks of the Illinois River.

A 30-foot man on a penny-farthing bicycle rides along the banks of the Mississippi.

Spanking machines, fake goats, and more devices of humiliation are on display in this museum of fraternal initiation devices.

Once known as the Illinois Asylum for the Incurable Insane.