Places Global Voyager Wants to Go

Between Missoula and Spokane, a family-owned travel center has an unusual museum in the back.

A technicolor place of worship for Elevationists.

World-famous, Pink's still manages to keep its prized cult fetish status.

A prohibition-style speakeasy takes up residence in the last Victorian residence in Hollywood.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

This ancient hydrological marvel is now the base of a modern outdoor cinema.

The railway carts travelers to central Athens's highest peak, which offers stunning vistas of the city.

A man's head is enshrined beneath a statue near the first building constructed for the modern Olympic Games.

Elaborate stone houses constructed from the ruins of war.

This ancient Greek place of assembly and marketplace is being revealed layer by layer below the modern Athens cityscape.

Controversial site of what could be Europe's first pyramid.

Where you can hail your favorite fictional commanders-in-chief.

One of the largest artillery pieces in the world sits in a Washington D.C. parking lot.

For 60 years, the academy had no permanent location until members voted Washington D.C. as its forever home.

Seemingly unremarkable items like empty sushi trays, chef hats, and freshness stickers are being preserved so future generations can look back on this beloved cultural import.

During the Industrial Revolution this “Temple of Invention” was full of intricate miniature machines and gadgets.

Fittingly, America's museum of architecture is itself a magnificently designed old building.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

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

Enormous piles of historically significant stones, dumped by Congress in a forest, and abandoned for 60 years.

This grand gothic brewery has been pumping out suds for over a hundred years.

One of the dwarven trees dates back to 1625 and survived the Hiroshima bombing.

The timeworn "Yankee Stadium" of the fastest game in the world isn't going anywhere.