Places patricklongmire Wants to Go

The museum houses "the most studied meteorite in history," among other geological oddities.

Remnants of the United States's largest accidental oil spill still mar a California valley.

Nine bronze hands protruding from a wall honor the student uprising that led to the fall of Czechoslovakia's Communist government.

The stickered marker pinpoints where the only maintained road in the United States crosses into the polar region.

A labyrinthine underworld of tunnels and caverns hides beneath the city.

A wonderfully eclectic Victorian aquarium lies in the basement of the Horniman Museum.

The antique vehicle is a preserved relic of Chile's nitrate mining industry.

This ancient Irish landscape boasts hundreds of legendary ruins.

There's a lot of horsing around on this lonely stretch of Australian highway.

A menagerie of curiously bred creatures.

This museum explores the grim reality of life in the earliest British colonies in America.

A large boulder marks the place where the island of Manhattan was purportedly "sold" to the Dutch.

It's where the final scene of the beloved Tom Hanks movie was filmed.

This multi-level, aqueduct-footbridge hybrid is one of the greatest works of the Spanish Renaissance.

A Saxony castle houses one of the largest and most outstanding mineral collections in the world.

The site of one of the largest prison escapes of World War II.

The old castle kitchen where nucleic acid was first isolated is considered the "cradle of biochemistry."

A crumbling World War I fort that is reached through a series of concrete tunnels.

This medieval manor house was hastily fortified when it found itself in the middle of the Scottish fight for independence.

This metal disk commemorates the birth of a historic American holiday.

Classical ruins that remember ancient Rome's presence in Africa.

Get hands on with the technological marvels of the Classical world.

A throwback train ride transports passengers through one of the lesser-known national parks in the country.

Imagine having a street run right through your home, or better yet, a historic bridge three stories high.