Places diggiosity Wants to Go

Standing in this historic plaza is a statue representing one of Cuba's most iconic literary characters.

A colossal statue with a controversial past, forgotten for more than 30 years.

Off-limits and full of venomous pit vipers, Brazil’s Snake Island has a frighteningly apt nickname.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

The largest crypt ever constructed in France was built in the 11th century on an ancient Druid sacred site.

The famous winding walk at Chartres is surrounded in mystery and myth.

Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.

An old train trestle re-imagined as an Egyptian obelisk.

This titanic steel chain linking two buildings was installed without permission but instantly beloved.

One of the best-selling bar bands in American music history is commemorated in their hometown's Five Points neighborhood.

The world's largest vertical wind tunnel.

The remains of a 19th century cargo ship now sits in the middle of a quaint neighborhood after a century spent on the ocean floor.

The only pachinko parlor in the United States.

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.

Perhaps the oldest vine in North America, this sprawling plant helps make a sweet wine.

These animal carvings stand as representations of India and Britain.

A giant repository of accidentally discovered cave paintings up to 30,000 years old.

This plaque marks the site where the penultimate chapter in the journey of two doomed boys unfolded in an imagined parallel universe.

Its town washed away centuries ago, this lonely tower by the sea tells the tale of a mermaid and a curse.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

This underwater old Texas hill town only resurfaces during harsh drought.

This was the first homestead registered after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act into law.

Swirling layers of white and red rock earned these mountains their festive nickname.

The last remnant of a tree that helped prove to the world that sequoias are real—and they’re spectacular.