Places OKonheim Wants to Go

This isthmus in the Bahamas narrowly separates the roiling Atlantic from the cool Bight of Eleuthera.

This hilltop fort is a dark holdover from one of Latin America's bloodiest dictatorships.

This popular tourist cave was ignored for almost 200 years before being mined into an attraction.

The first spinning jail built in the United States is the only one that still turns.

One of the largest carillons in the world, this giant instrument has 67 cast-iron bells played by a keyboard.

The hometown of Popeye's creator is littered with a growing collection of granite cartoon characters.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

Storms, funding, and in-fighting have kept this Bermuda church from ever being completed.

Mysterious concrete spires left on a small Canadian hill.

Buried deep in the forest near Limbe, this little-known slave port became the point of no return for 10 percent of enslaved Africans.

Also known as the Limete Tower, la Tour de l'Échangeur can be seen from almost everywhere in Kinshasa.

Built by a North Korean team this monument to African dictator Laurent Kabila has a suspiciously Kim Jong Il shaped body.

A jaw-dropping "megalibrary" that turns book-browsing into a geometric adventure.

A miniature beach in the middle of the desert.

The largest garbage dump in all of Central America is home to a tragic community that make their living from the refuse.

Walk 2,300 feet above the ground on the "Troll's Tongue."

An intricately carved Viking church overlooks a glistening fjord.

This colossal structure and its accompanying angel often play tricks on the eyes.

Huge stairway leads to this massive gallery.

Located in the mountains of Nicaragua, one man has spent most of life beautifying a massive cliff by hand.

Home of the "true" equator.

The ruined remains of an early hydroelectric dam.

Icelandic settlement in Manitoba established in 1875.

This beautiful grotto is one of those places where you can't believe you're just outside Austin.