Places Pat Wants to Go

Romans built the world's tallest artificial waterfall in 271 BC.

A mysterious pair of mice eating a piece of cheese is London's smallest public sculpture.

A unique museum focusing on the history of carpets and fabrics from different tribes and eras in Moroccan history.

In a past life this steamboat hauled rubber and passengers up and down the Amazon.

The sail of the first nuclear sub to circumnavigate the world.

Through a gap in a chain link fence behind an auto shop is one of Arlington’s oldest family cemeteries.

This feat of diesel-powered engineering enabled boats to bypass a series of five locks.

The history of West London’s water supply.

These temples are among the oldest free-standing stone buildings in the world.

One of the oldest lighthouses in the world, this structure was built more than 800 years ago.

A 5,000-year-old city in Peru holds the remains of a stunning set of astronomically-aligned pyramids.

A history of European missionaries in Malawi.

This stone monument marks the beginning of Portugal's presence in Brazil.

A small obelisk commemorates the launch site of the world's first liquid-fueled rocket.

Tucked away in downtown Westerly is America's first shark history museum.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

This megalithic tomb was crafted by a mysterious civilization that settled the island of Pantelleria.

This subterranean town of over 50 dwellings lies thirty feet beneath the Earth's surface.

Walk a trail through a historic Quaker town that outlawed slavery in 1777 and was a major waypoint on the Underground Railroad.

The best-preserved ancient theater in the world.

The largest Neolithic ruins in the world hide a notably clean prehistoric metropolis.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A plaque memorializes the Boston location of one of the largest nightclub fires in history.

The site of one of the strangest disasters in history—a wave of deadly molasses traveling at 35 mph.