Places mardigny Wants to Go

The monument dedicated to Phineas Gage in the town where his accident happened.

Now containing the bones of the actual conquistador, instead of someone else.

Twice a day this ancient path disappears with the tides, leaving the Holy Island of Lindisfarne out to sea.

The largest hewn stone in history.

America's silhouette includes 100 square miles of wilderness jutting into Canada thanks to an old mapmaking error.

Surat Thani's official flower—and the world's largest—smells of rotting meat.

The 3.8 billion-year-old rock proves that tectonic plates may have been shifting longer than we thought.

This famous archeological mystery may be an ancient example of movable type.

World Trade Center memorial likened to a woman's sexual organ.

Climb to the top of the world's largest seated bronze Buddha.

The largest single concentration of harmless garter snakes in the world is a writhing Canadian serpent orgy.

Museum dedicated to "the man who moved the Earth."

A restored, one-room African-American schoolhouse in the diva's hometown now preserves the legacy of its most famous student.

Once an impressive link to Afghanistan’s Buddhist past, now a sad reminder of intolerance towards other cultures.

The largest statue in the world towers at 420 feet high atop another 66 feet of pedestal.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.

The place where World War I began.

Siddhartha Gautama sat here and received enlightenment.

The fifth-longest suspension bridge the world, connecting one Michigan peninsula to another.

If there is one thing you don't want to be in Sweden during Christmas, it's a Yule Goat.

A museum in the former home of Marxist revolutionary Leon Trotsky.

These crudely shaped folk giants may be the the second most photographed statues in the U.S.

A city continually buried under the ash of a volcano that has been erupting for more than 15 years.

Huge winged monument in the United Kingdom.