Places eosstar Wants to Go

The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A trading post in the North Pole where children send letters.

This whimsical stacked cabin looks like something out of a children's book.

The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.

Two islands just 4 km apart separated by an International Border and Date Line.

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Some of the world's only freshwater seals live in one very special lake in Russia.

A cavernous three-story, 43,800-square-foot basement that was forgotten about for 60 years.

An early Portuguese serial killer's head is alarmingly well preserved in a jar at the University of Lisbon.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The world's northernmost ice hotel.

Rent out a glass igloo to watch the Northern Lights like you live in the future.

This scalding hot river was thought to be a myth until one geoscientist made it his quest to study the mystical waters.

Nature's slip and slide.

This stunning natural double arch, the largest in the Alps, went undiscovered until 2005.

Ruins of the elaborate house where the enigmatic costume designer threw glamorous parties for New York's theatrical elite.

When zealous marijuana enthusiasts kept stealing the "Mile 420" highway marker, the State of Colorado got creative.

During the holidays, a vintage subway train whisks New Yorkers back in time.

This controversial museum includes such detested exhibits as a chocolate suicide bomber and fecal-smelling digestion machine.

This salt marsh in Southern France is as pink as the flamingos that inhabit it.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

The only museum of sake in the United States is nestled in an unlikely California college town.

A famed drink seasoned with an amputated toe, now on its tenth digit.