Places marksuz Wants to Go

Although he donated over 3,000 acres to Los Angles, Griffith's life was marred by controversy.

A total of 14 men held the title of "president" before George Washington—their historical legacies are enshrined in the lobby of a hotel.

Unannounced visitors are now welcome at the site of the largest Prohibition-era bootlegging operation in the region.

Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.

The final resting place of a controversial man who was instrumental in plucking the banjo from obscurity.

The ruins of a monastery where Saint Bridget of Sweden had her revelations recorded.

What looks like a birch tree smushed between two pieces of glass often confounds commuters.

This 1854 courthouse along the Mississippi River has a storied history.

Believed to be the remains of the lost Temple of Minerva, this nymphaeum has been known by its misnomer to this day.

Oberweissbacher Bergbahn - a broad-gauged cable car capable transfering railcars.

Built in 1895, this bed and breakfast was once a hospital that served an early 1900s Gold Rush boomtown.

A Chinese meditation center in the middle of rural Sweden, partly funded by a member of ABBA.

A crescent of 12 simple statues poised on a small windswept island off the coast of Newfoundland.

The intense competition of the 19th-century fur trading industry played out at this fort in Western Canada.

The wooden sculptures are studded throughout a small New Zealand town.

An outcropping plays host to the largest collection of pre-contact petroglyphs in Saskatchewan.

Journey through the ruins of this ancient Roman temple dedicated to the god of war.

Its collection highlights the monumental tasks undertaken to map Queensland.

This ruined travelers shelter sits abandoned in a desolate bog of Flow Country.

A short boardwalk through a swamp leads to the spot from which the Louisiana Purchase was surveyed.

This hospital helped pave the way for treatment that drove down child-mortality rates in 19th and 20th centuries.

It took 82 years and four different plaques to finally get the story right.

This remote research station sits amid the second-largest ice sheet on the planet.

The world's largest private telescope collection hides in a secret wing of a Dutch auto museum.