Places marksuz Wants to Go

This religious site features Nepal’s largest statue of Buddha.

A story of cutlasses carelessly carving a celibate centenarian's cemetery stone.

Despite dreams of constructing this fairytale mansion, Albert Gotthard Nestor Cedergren never saw its completion.

Mysterious stone faces line a hidden path great for seeing wildflowers, bird watching, and rock climbing.

The longest canal aqueduct in England was built without a plan to get water past the moving boats.

The remains of a 13th-century Franciscan friary have survived multiple attempts at destruction, most recently in 1921.

Hitch a boat ride to dine on stilts while watching wildlife.

This slowly crumbling mansion was home to one of East Africa's richest and most powerful slave traders.

This general store is a one-stop-shop for workers at the Prudhoe Bay oil field.

Inside this library turned museum, the history of Modesto and Stanislaus County is on full display.

The largest refracting telescope in Europe is housed on the grounds of a former French castle.

The recreated ruins of a house designed to memorialize a World War I shelling on the town.

The ruins of an ancient fortification wall sit in front of and underneath this boutique hotel.

New Hampshire's most beloved war hero lived out his retirement in this peaceful homestead.

Eliot was the first missionary to produce religious text for Algonquians in their own language.

The location of a citizen uprising that led to a gruesome act of mob justice.

An unprepossessing stone marks the last resting place of one of the most accomplished Native Americans in history.

This abandoned gold mine found a second life as a post-apocalyptic film set.

Visible at low tide, this rusting vessel is one of the last surviving examples of the X-Class "Midget" submarines.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

Approximately 50,000 gallons of water gush from these springs, creating the Metolius River.

This sculpture presents commentary on a life in pursuit of profits.

This magnificent arch is all that remains of a former smelt mill.

Monument to the area's potato and lamb industries.