Places dcooke464 Wants to Go

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

The highest point in North Carolina and the United States east of the Mississippi River, Mount Mitchell is named after argumentative explorer Elisha Mitchell.

These eerie outliers of the lightning bug family glow a mysterious blue color.

This holy site either displays a centuries-old cross or a complete fake.

Bohol's unusually shaped hills turn brown in the summer months.

A well-traveled statuette of a much-beloved village icon.

What remains of the summer palace of King Kamehameha III.

A Hawaiian stairway to heaven—that you can't climb.

Once the site of the Hawaiian monarchy, this building was originally designed as a palace.

A unique set of caves that spits waves back out into the ocean.

A once-glowing grotto at the bottom of Waikapalae Wet Cave.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

These picturesque Hawaiian falls are home to a rare species of fish that uses a special sucker to climb up cliffs.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

In the best of all possible worlds, everyone will get a chance to see this statue in which Voltaire's heart is interred.

Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.

As you overlook the Howe Sound and the town of Squamish, your breath will be taken away by its beauty or the stairs... probably all the stairs.

This medieval hilltop village was abandoned at the end of the 19th century, after existing for more than 500 years.

This tranquil park with a spiral viewing tower is an off-the-beaten-path area where renowned people have planted a small grove of trees.

The remnants of an abandoned, 19th-century gold mill along Aruba's rugged northeastern coast.

Along the Stuart Highway, two giant sculptures tower over the roadway.

These mysterious ancient stone spheres were created by a civilization lost to time and are now mostly lawn ornaments.

Disused penal colony features prisoner artwork, some sketched in human blood.

A huge, bustling local market in Panama City.