Places marksuz Wants to Go

This ancient fort has been a great insight into the Roman presence in the region.

Dedicated to the explorer who opened Japan to the West.

An ode to Japanese artist Hokusai, with a bit of a comical twist.

A sprawling museum located on the former site of the Orphan Girl Mine.

High in the Rockies the third largest statue in the U.S. opens her welcoming arms, and lights up the night sky.

This record-setting hydraulic dam in the Montana badlands was one of FDR's most ambitious public works.

A rapidly disappearing glacier filled with extinct grasshoppers, perfectly preserved in the ice.

The remains of a foundry and old blast furnaces destroyed during the Civil War are preserved in this central Alabama park.

This estate on the banks of the James River was home to a Founding Father, two presidents, a famous bugle melody, and what some say was the actual first Thanksgiving.

The remnants of a record-setting industrial bucket system can still be found dotting the Swedish countryside.

This historical swimming pool near Miami is emptied and refilled each day with naturally filtered water.

A unique flight of canal locks that owe their form to 19th-century cost-saving measures.

The only surviving 19th-century water-powered mill found in the Washington, D.C. area.

Ernest Hemingway wrote a good portion of "A Farewell to Arms" while living with the parents of his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

A 1940's shrine dedicated to drowned fishermen on the outskirts of Honolulu.

Europe's first floating restaurant is home to a hilarious legend.

A unique collection of Swiss art brut and naïve art displayed in an old warehouse.

Grant Wood painted some of his most famous works of art at this studio.

This small town was built around a marble quarry and named after one of the most famous sources of marble in the world.

A lighthouse on this West Virginia lake started as a joke, then the forces of nature helped make it a reality.

The first railway tunnel to cross the Continental Divide and, at 11,523 feet, was once the highest railroad tunnel in the world.

Built by George III to observe the transit of Venus, this Georgian gem is a unique survivor in the Arcadian landscape of Richmond upon Thames.

Narrow gorges and deep pools created by long-ago glaciers.

Beside the pew where C.S. Lewis often sat while attending church, a window filled with characters from his beloved stories.