Seville, Spain
Tomb of Christopher Columbus
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Seville, Spain
The final resting place of the great navigator, or maybe his brother.
Seville, Spain
The world's largest wooden structure.
Sanlúcar la Mayor, Spain
Spain's stunning solar energy plant.
Antarctica
Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.
Thule, Greenland
Neither bomb blasts nor heartbeats escape the giant ears of this super sci-fi Arctic outpost.
Kasukabe, Japan
The world's largest drain sits below the city of Kasukabe, Japan.
Guyana
A brick arch is all that remains of this Dutch fort, once a focal point for colonial power struggles in Guyana.
East Rochester, New York
Called the “General Motors of the piano industry,” these buildings once produced as many as 700 pianos a week.
Palmyra, New York
Golden plates containing what would become the Book of Mormon were believed to be buried on this New York hillside.
Palmyra, New York
A field in which God and his son Jesus purportedly appeared to a young farm boy named Joseph Smith.
Aba, China
Intensely colorful calcite pools in Southern China.
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Hidden beyond a kitschy giant beetle is this remarkably sprawling collection of preserved insects.
Sarmiento Department, Argentina
An ancient forest of the Paleocene Age turned to stone.
St. Augustine, Florida
Bronze footprints mark the path where a civil rights leader tried to march in peaceful protest before being knocked unconscious.
Cape Town, South Africa
The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.
Akron, Ohio
An elegant sandstone stairway built by the WPA still connects two neighborhoods in Akron.
Nassau, Bahamas
The world’s largest underwater sculpture is found just off the coast of Nassau.
Andros I, Bahamas
Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.
Nassau, Bahamas
This staircase in a lush tropical grotto was built by enslaved laborers and renamed to honor Queen Victoria's role in ending slavery in the British Empire.
Spiro, Oklahoma
Where hills of dirt conceal the burial ground of one of the most powerful ancient Native American societies.
Manazan, Turkey
Naturally protected city carved from a rock face.
Penela da Beira, Portugal
An ancient tomb that still stands in Portugal.
Idanha-a-Nova, Portugal
Houses are tucked between, on, and underneath giant boulders.
Portugal
This gaping hole in the middle of a remote mountain lake looks like a portal to another dimension.