Places mardigny Wants to Go

Stenciled handprints and wall paintings dating back 10,000 years, some of the earliest forms of cave art.

Hidden inside this Arizona fast food franchise is an in-depth exhibit on the famed WWII counterintelligence program.

These termites have an large and deadly abode—impressive by day, dazzling by night.

A lake formed in the basin of a massive impact crater takes the shape of an unbroken ring when viewed from above.

Go inside the house that inspired L. M. Montgomery to create one of literature's most beloved heroines.

A Muppet museum in small-town Mississippi honors the roots of Jim Henson's most beloved creation.

The largest burial mound in the United States holds the remains of prehistoric West Virginians.

An auroral research program that superheats the ionosphere.

One of the best places to see wild Colonial Spanish Mustangs in the United States.

Modest by day, illuminated majestically at sunset.

It took over half a century but a Russian monument to a famous and tragic space pup finally stands in Moscow.

This monument on Breed's Hill proves that one of the most famous battles of the Revolutionary War is misnamed.

The artist and his brother are buried in a landscape straight out of a van Gogh painting.

A blooming house of worship for the masses.

The original home of the Lego has a huge amusement park dedicated to the iconic plastic toy.

This dramatic rail curve was once the target of a failed Nazi attack.

Where scientists keep miles of very valuable ice from Antarctica and Greenland from melting.

A single artist is behind these large-scale models made of hundreds of thousands of two-inch wooden matchsticks.

This erect, phallic geological spire wasn't always named so domestically.

Take shelter from Hawai'i's tropical heat under the massive canopy of largest Banyan tree on the island.

A trailblazing sovereign nation tucked in the American state of Wisconsin.

Italian poet Dante Alighieri is entombed in this small mausoleum in Ravenna, and his hometown of Florence has never been too happy about it.

The largest prehistoric ruins south of the Sahara, once a powerful center of international trade.

The meteor that sealed the fate of the dinosaurs landed at this site, one of the largest impact craters in the world.