Places Pat Wants to Go

A lake with hundreds of ancient skeletons surrounding it. The surprise is what killed them.

An eight-sided home built during a brief octagon craze in the 1850s.

At 705 feet high, Brazil's "House of Stone" is the largest cave mouth in the world.

The roof of this ancient mausoleum is made from a single Istrian stone weighing a massive 230 tons.

Rock-cut chamber at top of an outcroup, reached by a mountain stairway of forty steps.

Trace the history of writing at this unusual North Carolina destination.

The U.S. Navy's last diesel-electric submarine rests half-submerged in the middle of Portland.

The medieval castle built as headquarters for the Pope's secretive Knights Templar.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

On the outskirts of a desert trading village high on the Andean plain, steel giants have been destroyed by salt winds.

The remains of what was, not so long ago, the world's largest city.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

In this century-old literary safehouse, print is alive and well.

Great Britain's only hat-making museum.

This picturesque island graveyard is the final resting place of dozens of notorious pirates.

An ancient city hidden in the heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

This small monument marks the divide between the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the southernmost tip of Africa.

The world's largest banyan tree is followed by a community of worshippers.

A mysterious, hidden cluster of Buddha sculptures carved into the rocks.

A fifth-century temple improbably built into the side of a cliff.

Hidden in the hills is a mysterious stone structure, known only to a few.

The world's tallest palm trees look like the whimsical kind of plant you'd find in a Dr. Seuss story.

A three-tiered waterfall plummets from a mountain cave with amazing views over the countryside.

Maryland's first (and last standing) toll house on America's first federal road established the state as the "Gateway to the West."