Places nealpwright Wants to Go

This statue was given to France by the United States to commemorate the centennial of the French Revolution.

France's national museum of scientific and industrial instruments.

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

A favorite Paris bar for U.S. expats, including Gershwin, Hemingway, and James Bond.

This museum houses an imposing skeleton army comprised of creatures great and small.

The oldest stone house in Paris was built by its most famous alchemist.

When a mechanical flaw rewrote aviation rules.

Wildflower-filled 19th-century cemetery is a bucolic final resting place.

The trout that grew a winter coat is mounted in its Colorado hometown.

A marble cornerstone marks the location of what could have been a presidential palace.

This jet-infused peak marks the traditional northern boundary of the Navajo nation.

Colorado’s most beloved glacier is an imposter.

A boulder so big and tough, they had to turn it into a landmark.

The resolution to a case that had gone cold for 120 years, found on an old piece of wood.

Colorado’s second largest natural lake was created by a landslide.

Crisp mountain water cascades over volcanic rocks at these secluded falls outside Pagosa Springs.

You can stand in three U.S. states at once.

The worst road in Colorado is the main gateway to some of its highest peaks.

Thousands of unmarked, sunken graves in a pauper's cemetery.

Ski or snowshoe your way to a feast in the mountains.

Sip heritage cider with a surprising backstory at this family-owned cidery.

This cliffside memorial marks the final resting place of a lonely violinist.

Soak in the life’s work of one of the country’s foremost modern artists.

A once-thriving hotel from the Old West now sits abandoned, under the threat of demolition.