Places eliasirving Wants to Go

A small token of gratitude from freezing cold journalists who were given a warm haven while covering JFK's inauguration.

This stately Georgetown rowhouse was once the home of a 54-year-old diplomat and his 16-year-old bride.

Helen Keller once broke ground on this historic center for the study of technologies to benefit the hearing impaired.

Stand at the center of this lakefront sundial, and you'll become part of the timepiece.

The rock on which Moll Dyer was found frozen to death is said to still bear her handprint.

Captain John Smith thought these cliffs were amazing in 1608 but sharks thought so 20 million years before him.

A ghostly cabin attempts to reverse the erasure of enslaved people through poetry.

A reservation-only highland forest reserve of endangered Pinsapar firs stands above a village in Andalucía.

This remote location of this Moorish stronghold means it doesn’t attract many tourists—and that it still has the aura of fear and bravery of the 1300s.

Moorish signal station on a stratgic rocky outcrop.

A Spanish town built into the cliffs.

One of the most spectacular bridges in Spain spans a narrow chasm that divides the city of Ronda.

The hidden ruins of an old hydroelectric plant reclaimed by nature.

An eccentric collection of antique items shares space with a prop-quality witchcraft museum.

Sample Spanish wines under frescoes in a historic monastery of "barefoot old men."

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

The ruins of a 2,000-year-old Roman fishing village perched on one of the best beaches in Spain.

The cathedral of a controversial, conservative, schismatic sect that declared the Catholic Church heretical and founded its own succession of popes.

Resting place of Hollywood's immortals is also site of summer film screenings.

Perched high atop telephone poles is an uncanny outdoor art gallery that greets passersby on their commute.

This conservation area is also home to many of the region's desert tortoises.

The only thing stranger than stumbling onto these philosophical musings is the story of the homesteader who created them.

Crumbling pink walls and murder memorials preserve the pioneer history of Joshua Tree.

This outdoor observatory offers stellar views and a scale model of our solar system.