Places marksuz Wants to Go

This strange seaside tower got its name from a wealthy eccentric who would hide coins among its stones.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

A student driver's nightmare.

A castle that was built stone by stone by an eccentric journalist.

The fountain marks the area where hundreds of accused witches were burned at the stake.

The birthplace of an eccentric alchemist and possible inspiration for the fictional reanimator of monsters.

Behind this beachfront shop lies a spectacular, colorful sea cave with an equally colorful past.

A sacred site for Native Americans surveyed by George Washington and owned by both King George III and Thomas Jefferson.

It’s not hard to see why the historic Peabody Conservatory of Music’s library has been described as a “cathedral of books.”

One of the world's oldest and most massive living organisms is a grove of quaking aspens.

If drivers cross the rumble strip on this stretch of Route 66 at just the right speed it plays "America the Beautiful."

A stunning, two-tiered waterfall made famous by poets, artists and the legend of a ghost dog.

Ruined 11th century abbey built by King David I in Edinburgh, Scotland.

One of only two commuter aerial tramways in the United States.

This modest marker near Notre Dame identifies the very center of Paris.

A modernist landscape of water and sci-fi concrete.

Staves, storm-calling, and of course, necropants.

Scores of vintage street lamps shine along L.A.’s Miracle Mile.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

Construction of Barcelona’s iconic (but controversial) church was finally completed in 2026—a century after the death of its architect.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s most iconic home dangles over a Pennsylvania waterfall.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

One of the oldest medical collections in Europe focusing on rare surgical instruments.

The most visited, and possibly most controversial, museum in Germany.