Places mardigny Wants to Go

The notorious "Hanoi Hilton" where Vietnamese colonial subjects and later American POWs, including John McCain, were imprisoned.

A museum now occupies the mansion in Samoa where the prolific Scottish writer chose to spend the last years of his life.

This giant statue is the product of a mixture of corruption, Stalinist architecture, and North Korean manpower.

Michael Jackson got Bad and Crocodile Dundee walked on heads in this iconic Brooklyn subway station.

The shattered remains of the world's once tallest structure.

Columbus' failed colony in the New World.

Where thousands of slaves passed through the "Door of No Return."

200-foot-high minaret and only remnant of Afghanistan's lost city of the Turquoise Mountain.

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

A towering tribute to decisiveness stands on the spot where Brigham Young and his followers decided that this must be the place.

The White House Situation Room was taken apart in 2006 and shipped to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

A preposterously luxurious hotel with gold-plated iPads, Rolls Royce chauffeurs, and a staff that trains by watching "Downton Abbey."

An 11th-century fortress home to one of the most influential royal houses in medieval Europe.

A tiny, remote island packed with wonders both natural and geeky.

The world's widest single drop waterfall, and the two men who legend says went over its edge in a boat.

Site of the world's largest nuclear explosion.

The grandson of a Kiowa chief created what has become the iconic symbol of a city on the Plains.

The world's largest impact crater is mainly eroded but still remembers the planet's violent history.

The nation's second-ever First Lady urged the founding fathers to "remember the ladies."

At the point of oceanic inaccessibility, you can't get farther from dry land without leaving the planet.

Herbert Hoover's "Brown House" rural presidential retreat was a PR disaster amid the start of the Great Depression.

"The country that ate itself."

Supposedly this Ethiopian chapel holds the Ark of the Covenant, guarded by virgins who cannot leave the building.

This striking, two-toned confluence of rivers is visible from space.