Places iellwen Wants to Go

One of the most scenic stretches of road in America winds between some of the country's oldest trees.

This massive redwood tree has a hole in the base big enough to drive through.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

You might know it as the Overlook Hotel, but the inside is not going to be familiar.

Shoreline strewn with the remains of ghostly fallen trees.

An old vending machine serves up unpredictable beverages from its seemingly magical insides.

This private residence was the template for one of the most beloved television homes of all time.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The magic's in the hole!

This pseudo-steampunk weapons facility is the world's largest wood and glue structure, and packs quite a wallop.

The official atomic museum of the United States explores the explosive and productive history of a much maligned energy source.

This former steel and coal plant is now a neon-lit industrial fantasia.

Buildings from the fictional planet of Tatooine still litter the Tunisian desert.

An isolated dive site teeming with cnidarians.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Isolated atop this Balinese sea crag is a lovely Hindu temple that is said to be guarded by sea snakes.

This memorial commemorating fallen Swiss Guards of the French Revolution has been called the saddest stone in the world.

An underground city of salt.

On Japan's Tashirojima Island, cats are king.

The middle finger of modernity.

An ossuary built in 1210 to collect bones from the Ospedale Maggiore of Milan.

"The prettiest love letters in the world" ... or so said Lord Byron.

Every equinox this Maya pyramid puts on a spooky ancient light show.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.