Places mcwhitmore Wants to Go

A sculpture park of the tossed aside relics of the USSR, from Stalin to a massive Soviet emblem.

This former KGB building is now a museum memorializing the people who suffered during the Soviet regime.

Former headquarters of the KGB.

A former Latvian headquarters of the brutal KGB secret police is now open as a grim reminder of their atrocities.

The secret cells in the basement of the KGB's Estonian "Grey House" have been preserved as a grim Cold War museum.

Home to an astounding collection of carved skulls and other artifacts from Puebla's history

A controversial memorial at the place where Captain Cook met his violent end.

Honoring the Guinness brewer whose quest for the perfect pint led to the creation of the t-test, a cornerstone of modern statistics.

The last remaining relic of San Francisco's glittering 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition.

Also known as the Osaka Garden, this garden was originally built in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition.

This abstract sculpture is rumored to cast a hammer-and-sickle shadow once a year.

An avant garde art museum at the University of Chicago.

This surprising gem is a world-class archeological museum hidden at the University of Chicago.

Designed by Buckminster Fuller, this relic of the 67 Expo survived fire and ice.

Take a hike to this remote, scenic tea stop in the Canadian Rockies.

For this chef, an active volcano is his oven.

An otherworldly restaurant perched on the edge of a jagged cliff next to a medieval holy city.

Thanks to a quirk of elevation this gift shop produces magic doughnuts that are found nowhere else on Earth.

Shop at the 200-year-old store where Julia Child stocked up on copper cookware.

Site of a classic 19th-century physics experiment to prove the earth is rotating.

This Russian bar-restaurant lies within a three-story underground bathhouse.

Dive for drinks at Croatia's first and only underwater winery.

A young Italian couple has been locked in an embrace for over 6,000 years.

High seas history comes to life at this immersive museum with an on-site tavern.