Places mardigny Wants to Go

Watch butterflies take flight before you fly.

Known as one of America's most beautiful public restrooms.

A planet-hunting astrograph built in the 1920s to seek out the so-called "Planet X" beyond Uranus.

This North African stone complex is considered to be the oldest astronomical observatory on Earth.

Red sandstone structures dominate this landscape, which has been inhabited for some 5,000 years.

The final resting place of one of the brightest physicists of the 20th century.

The final resting place of the author who gave us the Little Mermaid, the Ugly Duckling, and many more beloved fairy tales.

The largest-known fragment of an asteroid that exploded over the southern Ural region in 2013.

A replica of the Roman emperor in glorious full color.

In this small strip mall resides the largest collection of original art from the famed TV artist.

The final resting place of an iconic drag performer is decorated with pearls and hot-pink lipstick.

A fortified palace in the shape of a ship on the Thiou river.

In 1912, this idyllic Alaska landscape was blown apart in the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century.

This peaceful park saw the beginning of an extraterrestrial invasion in H.G. Wells's 'The War of the Worlds.'

This 17th-century "unicorn" was cobbled together from the skull of a rhinoceros, the legs of a mammoth, and the horn of a narwhal.

The man who voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, and more has a headstone reading, "That's all, folks!"

People of the Plum Bayou culture built these enormous mounds over 1,000 years ago.

At the most northwestern point of the contiguous United States lies a trail leading through an ancient forest to stunning cliff-side vistas and massive oceanside caves.

Located inside Hoge Veluwe National Park, this museum began as the private collection of a prominent female art collector.

This groundbreaking 16th-century map is known as "America's birth certificate."

These Aboriginal fish traps are among the oldest human constructions in the world.

The shiny silver little brother to Copenhagen's Little Mermaid statue.

The first location of the eventual video game giant.

One of America's founding fathers lived in this London lodging between 1757 and 1775.