Places ktart Wants to Go

This naturally-sourced hot spring is now home to a clothing-optional resort.

Here be dragons.

North America's first frozen mummified remains of an ice age steppe bison, the 36,000 year-old mummy named "Blue Babe."

The "Gateway to the Arctic" connects Barrow's indigenous population with the sea and its traditional industry: whaling.

Venue for strange sideshow displays and musical acts.

Shop selling 500 flavors of soda has something for everyone.

The hidden jewel of Disneyland: a members only playground for the Disney elite.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

This family tattoo parlor has been inking religious pilgrims in the Middle East for 700 years.

A modern-day cabinet of curiosities housed in a 300-year-old inn.

This large collection of tiny things revels in the art of fine machinery well made.

This unique sanctuary invites you to interact with the beautiful birds.

A spiral staircase connects the limestone cave with Pembroke Castle, birthplace of King Henry VII.

One of the most enjoyable bits of history at Coney Island and “the most romantic ride in the world.”

Climb a steep hill in 90 seconds on the second-oldest urban subway in the world.

Quite possibly the oldest love poem known to humankind.

1513 Turkish world map, full of European state secrets and snarky commentary.

This eatery re-creates dishes from the Ottoman Empire so you can dine like a sultan.

A small etching on the white marble parapet was written in runic script by a Viking mercenary.

The self-proclaimed gateway to the Extraterrestrial Highway.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

The telescope that discovered Neptune.

This Arizona observatory is famous for investigations into Martian life, and as the place humans first spotted Pluto.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.