Places dstarr7517 Wants to Go

A radio telescope for listening to the stars, based in one of the cloudiest countries in the world.

The largest radio telescope in the world searches for extraterrestrial life from the remote limestone peaks of southern China.

This medieval castle is filled with an eccentric collection that ranges from ancient Egyptian artifacts to taxidermy to a mummified hand that was cut off during a duel.

Few other hotels can rival the grandeur of the Castle in the Rockies.

On this tiny spot of land in the middle of Lake Titicaca the only ones who do the knitting are the men.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

These vibrant row houses are a unique example of Baltimore kitsch.

Mysterious stone tower featured in many alternative histories of the New World.

The trees in this small meadow grew from seeds that orbited the Earth.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Dozens of large-scale, creative, evocative curios from prominent artists dot the calm outdoor space around this major museum.

100 years of rolling bus history and Hollywood cameos.

A home for Spain's version of the Tooth Fairy, hidden in an old gas company register.

A mountain pass used by Prohibition-era bootleggers to facilitate traffic into and out of Canada from Vermont.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

Over the course of its history, this tiny island has held enslaved people in transit and served as a quarantine zone. Today, it's a giant tortoise sanctuary.

This reserve is the only place in the world where you can see the Barasingha swamp deer in the wild.

Among fossils of creatures long since cast into oblivion, a once-single frog perseveres for his species.

According to the local folklore, the myriad colors of this lake are the result of a lovelorn wizard's blunder.

Deadliest lake in the world suffocated over 1,746 people in one night.

Legend says this remote, “bottomless” lake was created by a curse.

The largest underground lake in Europe.

A single oak tree rises out of the waters of Loch Lomond.

New Zealand's only inland salt lake goes through a constant cycle of filling, evaporating, and refilling.