Places GerhardM Wants to Go

A real flying saucer, contracted by the U.S. Air Force.

This stuffed pigeon of war had the very serious name "John Silver" until he lost a leg in battle.

The romance of early commercial flight still fills this Art Deco destination.

The stone marker that Mason and Dixon placed at the eastern end of the famous north-south border they surveyed.

The resting place of a Civil War celebrity's amputated limb.

A museum dedicated exclusively to aircraft used in the military.

The remnants of a wooden-hulled fleet built and abandoned in WWI, now home to a thriving ecosystem.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

A modern ghost town whose inhabitants were driven away by the growth of nuclear power.

Certain traditions prevail on the least-visited island of the Aran Islands.

Mortarless walls that stretch for miles are a lovely solution for creating grazing land in the harsh terrain of the Aran Islands.

An important landmark in the history of algebraic logic.

A devastating booze inferno poured through the streets, claiming several victims who drank it.

A stone wall that mysteriously moved three feet from its foundation.

The ancient tomb acts as a calendar that keeps perfect time.

An ancient neolithic tomb that only sees the sun twice a year.

Wallabies live naturally on this Irish island.

Though they've since been renamed, these two streets hint at Dublin's darker days.

Catholics make up 84% of Ireland's population but this Dublin museum remembers the small but important Jewish community.

This is the house that spite built.

The vaguely man-shaped root that ate the body of the founder of Rhode Island.

A monument marks the beginning of the longest north-south road in the United States.

10,500 square feet of pinball housed in former dollar store and home to the last playable "Thunderball."

After covering almost 1.5 billion acres, the survey's still not finished.