Places marksuz Wants to Go

A sacred lake composed of over 300 separate pools of highly concentrated minerals.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

At this Denver landmark, the meals are compulsory, the sopapillas are complimentary, and the insanity is everywhere.

A 200-year-old bar in the historic French Quarter refuses to give up its place in history, nor its role in securing ours.

The eerie ruins of an isolated abandoned town nicknamed "the Widowmaker" for its deadly gold mine.

This Stonehenge-inspired solar calendar stands alongside a landfill, in the middle of the Nevada desert.

This Hollywood dive houses a mural painted by the artists who animated its namesake film.

A ghost town at the airport is now a refuge for blue butterflies.

Slaughterhouse Five opens its dank doors to fans of Kurt Vonnegut.

The second-longest continuous wall on the planet protects a hidden secret in the deserts of India.

A lush oasis full of vibrant plants and striking geometric displays.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

A small but charming botanical garden that contains many exotic plant species.

A once-groundbreaking power plant turned into a hotel and mini-museum of archeological and geological wonders.

These excavated burials from the Tarim Basin are wrapped in mystery.

Eat a Nobel banquet from any year in the basement of Stockholm's City Hall.

Sweden's largest optical telescope sits on a rooftop in Stockholm.

Outside a Viking museum sits a modern-day runestone made by a Swedish runemaster using traditional methods.

When this 18th-century observatory's meridian was moved, it set Sweden's time back by 0.04 seconds.

Sweden's first nuclear reactor, R1, can be visited 25 meters underground.

The world's largest model of our planetary system.

Stockholm's deepest subway station is also a stunning ecological wonder.

This giant subway sculpture celebrates the fruit that inspired the theory of gravity.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.