Places eschie Wants to Go

Behind medieval walls in a corner of bustling Palermo is a breathtaking former mosque once inhabited by a wolf-taming hermit.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

A retro walk through the history of the tube.

An isolated, rusty phone booth commemorates Iceland's first international telegraph cable.

The largest of only eight working transporter bridges left in the world.

Stone slabs along the coast warn of Japan's tsunami-ravaged past, often marking the highest point of a wave's reach.

The world's largest wooden trestle stretches across this desert canyon in Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.

The steepest classic funicular in the world glides along a dizzying incline.

New Zealand's west coast is one of the best places in the world to view these large seabirds.

A tiny museum in Esperance, Australia, displays a bunch of space debris from NASA’s Skylab.

In the hinterlands of Serbia's capital, a giant reflective mushroom houses an aeronautical history of the former Yugoslav republic.

A remote horde of architectural treasures fit for Indiana Jones.

Ernest Hemingway was the first to sign this colorful wall covered in thousands of celebrity signatures.

The beloved fantasy novelist is buried near a church containing a whimsical etched glass window full of Narnia favorites.

A medieval bridge stretches over a sulfur-rich river that leads to year-round natural hot springs.

Western Europe's only representation of a Roman goddess still in its original location sits in an unassuming park.

It's hard to believe the dizzying patterns covering this abandoned mine are completely natural.

A locomotive that was captured as a prisoner of war is now recognized as a WWII memorial.

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

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

Dig for your own trilobites in this goldmine of invertebrates.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.