Places nathanlouis1 Wants to Go

This former Norwegian sailor's church is slowly being taken over by ramshackle robot musicians.

Bison, America's national mammal, are staging a slow comeback in Ohio's prairie parkland.

Elaborately carved to showcase the glorious wealth that the age of exploration brought to the Portuguese empire.

This little-known national museum houses over 40,000 works of art from across the world.

The best place in the world to buy tinned fish.

Ring the bell to enter a bar that looks equal parts museum and old curiosity shop.

This tiny tropical village was sick of anonymity so the locals made this sign, which actually changed the name of the town.

A 19th-century mansion houses the largest collection of gin in the European Union.

Europe's oldest still-operational tea farm also boasts a spectacular view.

A 30-year-old Sycamore tree grown from a seed taken to the moon and back.

These hellish-looking cliffs in the Canadian Arctic have been burning for centuries.

Siberian whale bones stand as cairns marking location of an ancient butcher yard.

An enormous, inside-out glass globe built in 1935.

This was once the center of the Birdman cult, and is now a World Heritage Site.

A hidden "place of interment for gentlemen."

Curious crustaceans support an obelisk from ancient Egypt that now stands in modern-day Central Park.

A century-old magnolia tree is the only living landmark tree in New York City.

This massive marble memorial was built bit by bit either out of devotion or spite, but at the expense of the surrounding town.

One-time winter retreats of prolific inventor Thomas Edison and his friend Henry Ford.

In Mumbai, a bright blue synagogue is the largest one for the Baghdadi Jewish community in Asia.

Burial site more than 300 years old.

The abandoned grounds and derelict greenhouses of this once-magnificent Edwardian estate are now a nature preserve open for exploration.

This preserved wilderness hides the remains of a colonial grain mill used to feed George Washington's troops.

This evocatively named natural crevasse was created by a torrent of water that smashed right through a granite deposit.