Places marksuz Wants to Go

Public access to clean drinking water was an instant hit among the masses.

One of the world’s largest collections of petroglyphs records 2,000 years of human activity.

This small and serene place for quiet reflection on Staten Island was built in China based on the gardens of the Ming Dynasty.

More than 21,000 images fill this overlooked gem of a prehistoric site.

A unique seaside cave where Aleister Crowley faked his own death.

This gracefully curving formation looks like a massive wave that was suddenly turned to stone.

Nursery with extensive collection of flesh-eating plants operated by the author of "The Savage Garden."

Richard III supposedly disposed of his nephews' bodies here in an effort to seal his claim to the throne.

Home of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthplace of the World Wide Web.

One of the only cooperatively owned bars in the nation wears its eclectic history on its walls.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

More than half of this Indian palace is drowned but it looks all the more spectacular for it.

The actual model from the original "Star Trek" series is now on display at the National Air and Space Museum.

The overgrown ruins of a once thriving World War I-era copper mine.

A raised boardwalk winds through a thicket of stunted, century-old trees no more than nine feet tall.

No one’s quite sure why there's a metal megaphone bolted on two rocks in the middle of the Mojave Desert.

A miraculous natural phenomenon known as "the spring that breathes."

The famous abolitionist’s preserved estate is one of Washington's finest monuments to its great Black citizens.

This "preacher's pulpit" once used for pagan ritual, is home to a new, and dangerous ritual.

An ancient and majestic fortress that played an integral role in Portugal's road to independence.

“It's the quality” (but probably also the drive-through donut tunnel) that has attracted diners since 1968.

Mine your own precious stones.

Revel in the Victorian splendor of the world's oldest eating establishment inside a museum.

A master of deception, Harry Houdini's greatest trick may have been living in two places at once.