Places Spencer Wants to Go

Eons ago, a rushing lava river formed this pristine passage through solid rock.

This unique library spans a mighty river.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

The only subway station in the city that still makes use of gap fillers.

Mysterious ancient petroglyphs carved on a glacial boulder at the tip of Bainbridge Island.

A miniature rainforest is growing inside of a Midtown Manhattan office building.

A secret door leads to this cozy dive that sells only “milk.”

This three-story antique market and curiosity emporium claims to be "the largest singly owned antique shop in the Pacific Northwest."

More than 300 years ago, a revolt at this Hopi pueblo shaped the future of the American Southwest.

A surreal landscape where fanged rocks rise from the ground and the ocean feels like a great mystery.

A Victorian marvel of engineering is now a 21st-century tourist attraction.

The world's first and only natural nuclear reactor.

An engineering error ensured this cavernous 350-foot-long subterranean thoroughfare was never used as intended.

This Quebec estate is home to the elaborate gardens of a self-taught horticulturist.

Sleep beneath the big screen at this old-school movie theater.

An abandoned water park overtaken by the dunes.

This simple apartment may have inspired some of the most important theories in the history of science.

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

Charles Babbage's proto-computer, painstakingly brought to life.

The world's first underground farm is in a World War II bomb shelter beneath the streets of London.

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

The highest paved road in North America winds its way up Mount Blue Sky in Colorado to an altitude of 14,130 feet above sea level.

Michael Heizer's masterwork in the Nevada Basin.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.