Iceland
Hundafoss
A small waterfall hides in a green gorge on the walk to Skaftafell’s famous basalt-framed cascade.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Iceland
A small waterfall hides in a green gorge on the walk to Skaftafell’s famous basalt-framed cascade.
McMurdo Station, Antarctica
The only place to get cash in Antarctica.
New Market, Virginia
A commemoration of child soldiers during a fearful battle of the Civil War.
New York, New York
The Pickle Guys stand as a salt-stained holdout of the Lower East Side’s historic pushcart culture.
San Diego, California
The Kansas City Barbecue restaurant also contains the original piano that was a central part of the famous "Great Balls of Fire" scene.
Yale, British Columbia
The gateway to the goldfields of British Columbia, at the head of navigation on the Fraser River, features Gold Rush era buildings, artifacts, and living history exhibits
Blackpool, England
The biggest mirror ball in the world
Dunbar, West Virginia
This campus monument honors Katherine Johnson, who hand-calculated the trajectory for America’s first human spaceflight and safely land Apollo 11 on the moon.
Vista, California
A colorful street mural created in downtown Vista by world-renowned spray-paint artist Chor Boogie (Jason Hailey), who grew up in the area.
Berkeley, California
A turqoise shack off the side of the road housing "100,000 things you don't need," as their sign out front says; it's filled to the brim with an expansive collection of costume jewelry, activist pins, old postcards, expensive collector's paintings, and so, so much more.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This mechanical marvel is a 24-hour cheese vending machine, holding freshly made cheeses from the internationally acclaimed Perrystead Dairy.
Newell, West Virginia
A factory store where more than 150 years of American pottery history is stacked—and still made just beyond the showroom.
Big Bear Lake, California
A 57-foot stained-glass dome from a Parisian tango house now crowns a wine bar in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Gaspereau Forks, New Brunswick
This wooden "kissing bridge" is one of only a few still standing in the region.
Washington, Wisconsin
A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.
West Perth, Australia
The Nostalgia Box is a celebration of video games and the people that made them happen. The museum contains more than 100 consoles, representing the evolution—and sometimes revolution—that occurred from the 1970s through to modern times.
Angelus Oaks, California
Meet California's largest recorded lodgepole pine: an 11-story-tall, 440-year-old living relic that has survived centuries of disaster to rank among the world's greatest forest giants.
Altadena, California
Beside a lonely road winding into the hills overlooking Altadena, sits a portal that urges callers to embrace humanity‘s innermost expression: Goodbye
Chantilly, Virginia
The parking lot of a northern Virginia shopping center is host to a monument to Korea’s greatest naval commander, to include a scale model replica of the Turtle Boat he made famous.
Nullarbor, Australia
A large kangaroo sculpture on the edge of the Nullarbor Plain
Provincetown, Massachusetts
A Provincetown shop that sells exactly one thing — a pink cupcake — and whose owner fought the town for the right to keep selling it.
Toronto, Ontario
A massive fossil of unknown origins
Berlin, Germany
An abstract monument by the famous Berlin sculptor Georg Kolbe for Emil and Walther Rathenau with an eventful history
La Chapelle-au-Mans, France
The hidden chapel that keeps getting forgotten over the centuries