Places lizzyrbits Wants to Go

A monument to the frontier doctor who came up with the idea of delineating highways with a painted line.

South Korea's women of the sea have completely flipped their society's structure by becoming revered fisherwomen.

A former insane asylum despised by Nelly Bly and Charles Dickens is now fashionable apartments.

A Texas museum filled with Broncos and Betties.

"There's nothing there," and other lies the KGB told us.

A restaurant on Staten Island showcases a different grandmother’s cooking every night.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

An institution dedicated to curiosity, logic, riddles, and Mongolia's long history of puzzles.

Dolphins, ancient clams and hundreds of waterfalls make this one of the world's top tourist destinations.

These giant volcano sponges in Antarctica are thought to be the world's oldest living animal, at 15,000 years old.

The world's oldest rose is so tough it survived being bombed in World War II.

The oldest olive tree in Greece has been bearing fruit for at least 2,000 years.

One of the world's oldest trees comes with a Welsh legend intertwining it with a spirit prophesying death.

Possibly the oldest living thing in Europe, more likely a pagan survivor.

A South African bar inside a hollowed out 6,000-year-old Baobab.

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

A ring of creosote bushes that are estimated to be 11,700 years old.

This massive mushroom has spent centuries eating its way across a huge swath of Oregon.

Once thought to be the oldest living tree in the world, Methuselah was germinated before the Egyptian pyramids were built.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

About 80% of all U.S. avocados are descendants of Rudolph Hass's glorious tree.

This abandoned school has had many lives since the early 1900s, and all of them doomed.

What might look like a cliffside sacrificial altar at first glance is actually a stone compass pointing to cities and lighthouses all around the world.

A memorial to the unknown and unheralded men and women of the Cold War military and intelligence services.