Places marksuz Wants to Go

This ancient church, rebuilt at least 3 times, is flanked at all sides by history.

A hugely vast Irish landscape of barren rock that stretches for miles.

A cult archaeology conspiracy theory claims these West Virginia petroglyphs were written by Irish monks in Ogham.

The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove.

Tragedy on Little Brewster Island memorialized.

A monument to the 17,000 Chinese who worked and died to build Canada's Pacific Railway.

Its collection includes a broad array of social, geographic, graphic design, and political history.

65 million-year-old chalk outcroppings mark the end of the Jurassic Coast.

The remains of centuries of copper mining appear like an alien landscape.

A cluster of granite granaries perched on stilts.

A lakeside garden in the Southern Alps full of whimsical artwork and thousands of beautiful flowers.

A group of glacial erratic boulders are improbably balanced on white limestone pedestals.

Climbing Iceland's highest peak on the rim of the Oræfajökull volcano.

This historic tower in the California desert promises visitors a "vortex of good vibes".

America's first nuclear-powered merchant ship is now a time warp to the atomic age.

A swath of France so devastated by war it is still forbidden to go there.

This rock formation named for its unique shape is one of many that call the Alabama Hills home.

A beautiful, but toxic, lake formed by mining.

This ornate English estates "Prodigy House" still bears the cannonball marks of civil war.

This marine reptile was discovered by one of the 19th century's greatest fossil hunters.

Rumor had it that these concrete crosses scattered across the Arizona scrubland helped align spy satellites. (They didn’t.)

This noble mash-up in eastern Luxembourg is part Medieval, part Renaissance, all castle.

This steep cable railway has been hoisting passengers in the heart of Québec City for over a century.

A living maritime paradox still floats in the same lake where it was built and resurrected... or was it?