Places minimeredith Wants to Go

If New Orleans is the birthplace of the "cocktail," why does their own museum of cocktail memorabilia beg to differ?

The statue honors an adventurous seafaring cat.

A 19th-century perch for spotting sailing ships now boasts one of the most iconic views in the Southern Hemisphere.

Highly spherical boulders on the shores of New Zealand.

The premier place to experience the Victorian imagining of the steam-powered future.

A perfect turquoise lake colored with glacier dust.

A peninsula on a peninsula that becomes an island at high tide.

One of the largest collections of traditional Māori artifacts in New Zealand.

This bakery sells traditional Māori sourdough.

This outdoor library provides around-the-clock access to around 7,000 books.

A monument commemorating the discoverer of radio astronomy.

This water tower commemorates the invention of the transistor on this site in 1947.

Where the embers of the Big Bang were first detected.

A piece of telecommunications history.

The first dish to bounce radio signals off the Moon, it was the forerunner to the U.S. Space Program.

A completely round house designed for the Atomic Age.

The first marker along the famous boundary.

A scenic fort on the harbor protected Philadelphia from an attack that never came.

The final resting place of two members of the infamous Doan gang, notorious outlaws and Revolutionary War Loyalists.

This might just be the TARDIS of bookstores.

This historic old movie house was the scene of one of the Blob's most iconic attacks.

This local gem houses the largest collection of pre-Raphaelite paintings outside of the U.K.

This splendid Versailles-inspired mansion has the largest French-style formal gardens in North America.

A pride of the state, this working museum crafts pottery mosaics in the style of Pennsylvania's earliest European settlers.