Places cosmobacon13 Wants to Go

Sometimes an island, sometimes a rocky outcropping connected to the world by a tiny suspension bridge.

A tribute to Ponce de Leon's supposed quest for eternal youth.

In 1977, an eccentric book lover formed a micronation for book lovers.

So opulent and massive it was once dubbed a palace, this hotel's doors closed temporarily in 2007 and failed to reopen.

Tucked away inside this concrete building is a church and its grand display of brutalist architecture.

Legacy of the earthquake that nearly wiped Lisbon off the face of the Earth.

Get in line for Lisbon’s most famous sandwich.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

The beginning of the historic Iditarod Trail connecting the Alaskan cities of Seward and Nome.

Colorful boxes placed over the dead are left to rot and crumble.

A quirky roadside sign was the subject of a years-long legal standoff over highway right-of-way clearances. 

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

This former outpost was designed to protect the lucrative fur trade of the 18th century.

A lake in the middle of the tundra of Quebec is said to be the purest freshwater lake on Earth.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

A modern version of the stone cairns built by the Inuit.

The world's northernmost flowers cling tenuously to life on desolate Kaffeklubben Island.

A 90-year-old underground water reservoir offers a more industrial kind of tranquility.

A remote Arctic museum focusing on the science of icebergs and the archaeology of an ancient Inuit settlement which lies just outside its doors.

No longer the only, but definitely the oldest, fountain in Greenland.

Walrus skulls and narwhal bones were found here while excavating a 900-year old church.

An experimental forest at the foreground of arboreal science is also the canary in the coal mine for climate change.

A surprisingly beautiful abandoned World War II military base in East Greenland.

Despite finally receiving electricity in 1970, this tiny town is now deserted.