Places marksuz Wants to Go

Across the Pacific in a raft, a museum dedicated to Thor Heyerdahl's now legendary expedition.

Members of Congress have traveled between the buildings on Capitol Hill for a century hidden from tourists, press, and storm clouds.

The longest burning light bulb in the world.

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

This rural community has attracted both scientists and techno-refugees due to its federally-mandated lack of technology.

America's first federal monument.

A measuring mishap led to these artificial stone ladies losing their stomachs.

A museum dedicated to the history & joys of the trail & your best chance to see hikers throwing up ice cream.

The oldest Jewish cemetery in Europe survived Hitler's Germany.

The "lovely red Vega" of the legendary record-settling pilot.

This scenic Icelandic lava flow is named for a pair of Berserkers who were murdered, according to a famous Saga.

Outlaws, hot springs, and tragedy have all left their mark on this ancient road in the Icelandic highlands.

The U.S. Air Force has an anti-satellite laser weapon.

The glacier tucked within a New Zealand rainforest.

This pair of Australian "waterfalls" appear to be falling straight across the land.

These phallic stone spires once served as Tolkien's Paths of the Dead.

Just outside of Nairobi lies a large estate surrounded by endangered Rothschild giraffes, who have been fed from the window by Mick Jagger and Walter Cronkite.

These huge stone ovens in the desert fueled the Nevada silver boom, and may have also been a hideout for outlaws.

Search for traces of the dinosaurs that roamed here more than 90 million years ago.

The last remnants of a massive medieval wall that once encompassed the city of Berlin.

A magnificent, iconic stone tower in the Scottish Highlands.

A circle stone within a stone circle.

A rare surviving example of a pre-WWII Japanese garden, restored after years of neglect.

A little marble compass above George Washington's (empty) tomb in the Capitol marks where D.C.'s four quadrants intersect.