Places Nicola B Wants to Go

The tallest lighthouse in the Nordic countries was also the site of a bloody World War II battle.

This iconic sluice gate is a favorite haunt for joggers, fishing enthusiasts, and even ghost hunters.

Tour the world's largest deep-hole dimension granite quarry, where you can view the plant where gravestones are made and roll a ball down the outdoor granite bowling alley.

The Vermont grave of a 4,000-year-old mummy prince.

A massive sustainable farm designed by the mastermind behind Central Park.

This sandstone gorge in New York State's Adirondack Mountains is home to waterfalls, flumes, and more.

A feminist who put a pretty face on suffrage when she rode a horse through the Capitol.

The summit Roosevelt conquered before he descended to become The Chief.

Teddy Roosevelt’s famous “midnight ride to the presidency" started at this small lake high up in the Adirondacks.

An old abandoned mining town in The Adirondacks where Theodore Roosevelt first learned of the shooting of President William McKinley.

This memorial in the Adirondack wilderness honors the accidental death of a Scottish entrepreneur.

This dry lake bed contains the oldest known petroglyphs in North America.

A unique solar-powered pottery studio and gallery in the desert.

This Nevada lake holds its titular natural pyramid and, if the legends are true, a number of dangerous spirits.

A mountain range on an active U.S. Navy base hides thousands of mysterious prehistoric rock carvings.

A public art installation with a nautical themed poem, enhances this pedestrian street.

The poems Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia etched into its windows are still visible today.

The only thing sweeter than the potatoes is the canine proprietor of this roadside stall.

A rare pod of derelict midcentury Futuro and Venturo houses lines a semi-abandoned beachfront resort outside Taipei.

An extraordinary natural landscape of mountains, waterfalls, and rocky cliffs riddled with tunnels.

This greenhouse was once a hockey arena.

A famed data visualizer's personal sculpture garden is a landscape of modern and megalithic wonders.

A town church once nearly submerged by the damming of a river is now hauntingly visible as the water recedes.

An Aztec temple, the largest man-made pyramid in the world, sits buried in earth with a Spanish church set on top.