Places jddarcy Wants to Go

A marble Lucifer hides behind the pulpit of this Gothic cathedral.

This giant urban staircase was built to keep the city's brave fighting men from getting waylaid in the red light district.

Under a glass sidewalk lie the remains of some of Manhattan's oldest buildings.

The discovery site of the "Capitalsaurus," the official dinosaur of Washington, D.C.

This golfball sized platinum iridium cylinder is the official starting point for all national weight calibrations

The U.S. government built the million-pound stack of steel during the Space Race.

Hidden in Central Park's Ramble is a troublesome cave buried just beneath the surface.

This whimsical group of statues is a favorite of children who love to climb all over Lewis Carroll's beloved characters.

The hike through a narrow river flanked by the 2,000-foot-tall walls of Zion Canyon is one of the best in the world.

This municipal playground was co-created by the father of one of the most playful characters ever.

Once America’s most beautiful army base, this abandoned military fort on the coast of Monterey Bay has been left to the elements.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

The site of an atrocity that would be used to justify Britain’s conquest of India.

A peculiar clock commemorates a historic victory won by ringing the noonday bell an hour early.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This ancient Egyptian obelisk still bears the wounds of World War I.

An emerald-green grotto just a short trip from Austin.

Blighted Irish field and the ruins of a 19th-century cottage on the edge of urban Manhattan.

Climbing this abandoned railway leads to breathtaking vistas of O‘ahu.

Flames have been burning within this mountain for more than 2,500 years.

This raised bulls-eye visible from space was the subject of an intense geologic controversy.

The World Wide Web was created in this nondescript corridor at CERN.

CERN's beautiful, bending sculpture is a tribute to the spread of knowledge.