Places josephwbeck Wants to Go

In downtown Oslo, a menacing and terrifying relief clings to a church wall.

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.

Keshwa chaca, among the last handwoven Incan bridges, crosses Apurimac Canyon in Peru.

Situated on a sacred Inca site, this 16th-century cathedral took nearly 100 years to build.

This geometric feat is a testament to the Incas' mesmerizing architectural abilities.

The stones of this Incan wall complex fit together so well you couldn't fit a piece of paper between some of them.

The fictional star of "Breaking Bad" is memorialized with a real-life gravestone in his hometown.

A museum devoted entirely to the rattlesnakes and snake-related art.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

An underwater city for the dead.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, rocks and fossils from every U.S. state were collected into a pyramid of national unity.

This curio museum seems like the type of place you might find a mogwai or a monkey's paw.

The island residents are known for taking their quirky sense of humor with them to the grave.

Florida's oldest bar was once a morgue, complete with a hanging tree and gravestones.

These remote Florida islands have a history of sea turtles and sunken treasures, and one of the world’s largest coastal brick fortresses.

An eerie smiling woman looms above the granite tombstones.

One of Savannah's oldest and most haunted cemeteries, featuring graves desecrated by Sherman's Union Army.

A cement mixer-turned-kaleidoscope in downtown Norfolk offers different views of the city.

"Not too many people can say they've had a nuclear bomb dropped on them, not too many would want to." — Walter Gregg.

They call this long foot bridge a swinging bridge, but really it's the bouncing you have to watch out for.

The record holder for the world’s largest peach.

The world's largest fire hydrant is supposedly tornado-proof.