Places cpmaverick Wants to Go

Legend has it that this bronze orb, which sat atop an ancient Egyptian obelisk, once held the ashes of Julius Caesar.

The oldest surviving wooden bridge over Rhine lets travelers cross easily from Switzerland to Liechtensten.

A once-booming Mississippi River town with a history of racial violence is now eerie and mostly abandoned.

One of the steepest streets in the United States makes an intriguing challenge for cyclists.

This scenic waterfront swimming pool is the longest salt water pool in North America.

Brass bricks outline the locations of Edinburgh's lost, lively market stalls.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

Crypt mausoleum in cathedral's basement contains relics of third century Roman martyr, Saint Vibiana.

L.A.'s oldest operating bowling alley is a beautifully restored homage to its speakeasy days.

This magnificent, quirky home sits atop a literal gold mine in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This 29-ton granite ball spins around at the slightest touch thanks to a scientific phenomenon.

A relief that wraps around the concourse of Los Angeles's World Trade Center marks one of the city's failed urban design plans.

Final resting place of the most prolific Fijian cannibal of all time.

An American ghost town hides along a side street in Scotland's capital.

In the main dining room, a nine-ton boulder caps the fireplace designed by local architect Earl Young.

The now-abandoned tunnels were built for the transcontinental railroad on the route where the first wagon train entered California.

An antique store houses the last operational diner from the defunct department store chain.

Monks turned this mountain into a temple by digging grottoes, tunnels, and a huge pagoda-like hall.

The “City of Stairs” sits high in the Andes, above the world’s largest underground copper mine.

A stranded woman lived alone on this remote island for 18 years, inspiring the great children's novel "Island of the Blue Dolphins."

This unacceptably tall building was the real reason for Washington, D.C.'s skyscraper ban.

Eulogizing an unknown man's unusual demise.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.