Greece
The Oracle of Delphi
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Greece
The hallucinogenic center of the ancient world.
Thessaloniki, Greece
A two thousand year old brothel uncovered in Northern Greece.
Delos, Greece
Giant marble phalluses on the sacred island of antiquity.
Howland Island
The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.
Kiribati
Amelia Earhart's possible place of death.
Antarctica
An abandoned whaling station on an active volcano offers hot springs in Antarctica, surrounded by ruined giants of industry.
Mackinaw City, Michigan
A Northwoods sporting competition that shows lumber jacks doing much more than cutting down trees.
Højbjerg, Denmark
Preserved "bog person" that is over 2,000 years old.
Concord, Massachusetts
"the sweltering inhabitants of Charleston and New Orleans, of Madras and Bombay and Calcutta, drink at my well . . . The pure Walden water is mingled with the sacred water of the Ganges."
Wamego, Kansas
During the 1990's nearly all of the world's LSD is thought to have come from the operators of the lab once located in this missile silo.
Balmorhea, Texas
A spring-fed pool so deep it's used for scuba diving as well as swimming.
Marshall Islands
The birthplace of both the Atomic Age and Godzilla, and the namesake of the bathing suit.
New Orleans, Louisiana
Formerly known as National D-Day Museum, this collection commemorates the battles of Normandy and WWII.
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Wisconsin's most celebrated export gets the royal treatment on I-94.
Ordos, China
It seems that the residents of of this megalopolis suddenly vanished, but they were never actually there.
Cullman, Alabama
A miniature city built by a single hunchbacked monk.
Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin
A theme park attraction designed to turn your children into LARPers.
Bagram, Afghanistan
The West's first incursion into the Afghan world lies buried beneath a military base.
Bletchley, England
Museum celebrating the history of computers, especially their role in codebreaking.
Deadwood, South Dakota
A cemetery housing wild west legends in South Dakota.
Schleswig, Germany
Ample proof that watery ends make for well-preserved, millenia-old mummies.
Çanakkale, Turkey
This famous city eluded concrete detection until the early 2000's.
Tula, Russia
A Russian museum dedicated to the household staple, the samovar.
Gurdon, Arkansas
A mysterious light floating in the trees of Arkansas may be a piezoelectric effect.