Places dwilkinsboise Wants to Go

Akureyri is home to an oversized can of one of Iceland's favourite beers.

The most southern point you can drive to in the Western Hemisphere.

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

A 2,000-year-old engineering wonder hides beneath an Italian town.

The floor of this spectacular Baroque sanctuary is covered in memento mori.

One of the few remaining examples of 19th-century London’s attempt to clean up its reputation.

A trough of 700 strange bronze faces runs through a narrow alley in Ljubljana's old town.

The sole surviving relic of the San Francisco neighborhood cobbled together from old horsecars and streetcars.

Live data is transmitted from the Atlantic coast to instantly recreate the ocean waves in this fountain at the NOAA headquarters.

Some claim these desert ruins are from the legendary "Atlantis of the Sands."

These gnarly desert trees produce the prized aromatic resin traded along the ancient incense trail.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

A spectacular hidden beach in Ireland has the dark, disturbing nickname of "Murder Hole Beach."

Spend the night in this formerly abandoned traditional Scottish village.

This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.

These magnificent city walls rise from the barren sun-baked Spanish plains like something straight out of a fairytale.

A holy well supposedly infused with a saint's spirit flows within this quaint chapel.

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

An ancient Scottish rock formation said to be the gravesite of a giant remains ensconced in legend and intrigue.

Islanders once used this dramatic, otherworldly landscape to hide their cattle from Viking raiders.

The last manually operated turntable ferry in the world.

This macabre monument atop an ancient well gives a nod to a brutal episode in Scottish clan history.