Places nyjzane Wants to Go

Every weekend, people gather here for a brief chance to see their loved ones on the other side of the United States–Mexico border.

The world's largest key collection features keys to the White House, Frankenstein's castle, and Hitler's bunker.

“You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.” ― Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

One-of-a-kind museum inside the first Boeing 747-400 ever made.

An oddly touching memorial to a little-remembered nuclear tragedy.

The contents of this safe survived a 37-kiloton nuclear bomb.

A picture-perfect town, perfect for blowing up.

Stepping away from the glitz of mobsters and casinos to learn about the other history of Vegas.

Back in 1952, you could get a mushroom cloud chaser with your atomic cocktail.

A cannon designed to fire an atomic warhead.

Twice a year, visitors can tour the desolate site that birthed the Atomic Age.

This remote site in the Australian Outback is where the British government conducted atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

Nature's biggest mammal swims in landlocked Oklahoma.

Once connected to the outside world by a single train track, this ghost town is looked after by the National Park Service.

The ornate miniature mansions were built for Istanbul's feathered residents.

After funding was cut for a memorial to the Danish author, the sculptor had his statue ceremonially lowered into the city harbor.

This underwater graveyard commemorates a group of murdered 16th-century missionaries.

Nope, not Washington Irving's house.

A menagerie of concrete animals brought together from across New York City's parks.

Believed to have once stored either human remains or rice wine, thousands of mysterious stone jars lie in ruin.

A meandering boardwalk across the bogland leads to a "stairway to heaven" with sublime views.

Medieval village and microminiature museum.

For those late-night mollusk cravings.

The origin of this mechanical boy was a mystery until he revealed his maker by writing it in perfect cursive.