Places loodie Wants to Go

One of the world's steepest streets seems to have houses sliding down it.

Running since 1864, this clock has yet to be wound, one of the longest-running science experiments known.

A road that ends in the middle of a farmer’s field is one of the only remnants of this once-famous racetrack.

One man has carved a number of natural New Mexico caves into psychedelic sandstone temples.

The vanishing remains of an old water station from the late 19th century.

Ten shipwreck-shaped chalets lie along the sand dunes on Namibia’s Skeleton Coast.

Ancient artists in the middle of nowhere.

Tracks of ceratosaurus and Coelophysis rhodesiensis tracks can be found fossilized in the sandstone near Mt. Etjo.

Road signs in Namibia mark the location of one of the five major circles of latitude.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

A desert that rolls right up to the ocean, where it's so dry animals live off the fog.

This "dead marsh" sits among the largest sand dunes in the world, a forest frozen in time.

Unexplained bald patches in the landscape grow and recede over time, as though they are somehow alive.

A rare cluster of alien-like plants grows along a dusty highway.

A rustic place to spend the night, complete with amazing quiver trees and outsider art.

The ruins of this mining boom town stand like skeletal reminders of the settlement's dark history.

Welded sphere dropped from space.

A public display of prehistoric space rocks is named for the Namibian village where they were found.

One of the largest pieces of scientific equipment ever carried on a NASA space shuttle sits in a Chicago alley.

A wonderfully curated used bookstore in an airport.

Literally a million fascinating cartographic artifacts are held in this sprawling university collection.

A unique botanical garden housed in three giant geodesic domes.

Robots, lasers, and whoopee cushions, oh my!

A science teacher's dream.