Barcelona, Spain
European Museum of Modern Art
A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Barcelona, Spain
A temple to modernity, tucked away amid Barcelona's more well known museums.
Pyongyang, North Korea
A vast museum devoted to North Korea's victories against its imperialist enemies.
Sur Lípez, Bolivia
A desert that evokes the surreal.
Del Monte Forest, California
Haunting and beautiful trees, doomed to die.
Colombo, Sri Lanka
Why is there a vintage Rolls Royce in this Buddhist temple?
Highlands, New Jersey
These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.
Albadarr, Gambia
A tiny island home to a former English slave fort.
Cluny, France
One of the most powerful religious centers in the Middle Ages, dubbed the founder of Western monasticism.
Carthage, Texas
The only international border marker within the United States.
Ulan-Ude, Russia
A uniquely authentic display of traditional Russian culture.
Borre, Denmark
A natural wonder in south Denmark.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
This innocuous New Mexico storefront was once the secret jump-off spot for Manhattan Project scientists.
Santa Fe, New Mexico
These Pre-Columbian petroglyphs contain representations of birds, deer, hunters, and even some early Native flute players.
Shiprock, New Mexico
Legends surround this jagged rock formation in the New Mexico desert.
Abhaneri, India
Thousands of exquisitely carved stone water storage wells, hundreds of stone steps fill this exquisite medieval stepwell.
Mont Saint-Michel, France
This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
This lab's maddening silence is good for business but bad for sanity.
Ellicott City, Maryland
The haunting "Hell House Altar" is one of the few remnants of an abandoned college that has been a magnet for local legends.
Mecca, California
The ghostly remains of an accidental sea.
Seattle, Washington
A 100-year-old purveyor of curiosities, curios, and kitsch featuring mummies, shrunken heads, and a Fiji Mermaid.
Australia
An Australian lake whose pink hue defies scientific explanation.
Sligo, Ireland
A tiny microvalley etched into the side of Knocknarea Mountain hides another world.
London, England
The largest of London's subterranean rivers and once a mad, bad center of London life.
Daniel Campos, Bolivia
A seemingly endless landscape of pure salt stretches far across Bolivia.