Prague, Czechia
Memorial to the Victims of Communism
Increasingly decayed figures stand as a powerful reminder of the human costs of Czech Communism.
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Places this traveler has marked as been there.
Dachau, Germany
Dachau Concentration Camp
The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.
Salzburg, Austria
Schloss Hellbrunn
Trick water gardens from 1619 featuring a 200 piece mechanical theater powered by water.
Hallstatt, Austria
Salzwelten: The Hallstatt Salt Mine
The world's oldest known salt mine.
Hallstatt, Austria
Hallstatt Charnel House
An Austrian house of bones filled with hundreds of intricately painted skulls.
Coldfoot, Alaska
Coldfoot Camp
The northernmost truck stop in the United States.
Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska
Denali
The king of U.S. high points towers over every other peak on the continent.
Whittier, Alaska
Whittier, Alaska
This small city where almost everyone lives in the same building can only be reached via North America's longest tunnel.
Whittier, Alaska
Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel
Running under an entire mountain, the longest highway tunnel in North America is kept fresh using portal fans and jet fans.
Skagway, Alaska
Red Onion Saloon
Originally a brothel during the Klondike Gold Rush, this bar once used dolls to denote when ladies were working.
Ketchikan, Alaska
Creek Street District
A historic area for shopping and dining in Ketchikan's former red-light district.
Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Falls Park
More than 7,000 gallons of water pour over these cascading red quartzite waterfalls every second.
Mitchell, South Dakota
The Corn Palace
A fitting attraction for the corn capital of the world.
Chamberlain, South Dakota
Dignity of Earth and Sky
A striking sculpture built to honor the women of the Lakota and Dakota Nations.
Wall, South Dakota
Wall Drug
The granddaddy of all tourist traps, built on ice water, jackalopes, and a giant dinosaur.
Collinsville, Illinois
Cahokia Mounds
Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.
Hana, Hawaii
Hana Lava Tube
A tunnel of hardened lava along Maui’s famous Road to Hana.
Honolulu, Hawaii
National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific
Hawaii’s largest cemetery rests inside an extinct volcano crater.
Riverside, Iowa
Captain James T. Kirk Future Birthplace
A place of great reverence for Trekkies everywhere, a hero's future birthplace.
Lake Itasca, Minnesota
Headwaters of the Mississippi River
At this Minnesota state park you can easily wade across the source of the mighty Mississippi.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
Saint John's Abbey Church
A jaw-dropping brutalist space church seems to have crash-landed in the middle of America.
St. Joseph, Minnesota
The Saint John's Bible
The first hand-illuminated, hand-written bible since the invention of the printing press.
Bloomington, Minnesota
The Mall of America
Equal parts record-breaking temple to consumerism and bizarre fun park, it's more than you think it is...
Villisca, Iowa
Villisca Axe Murder House
This seemingly charming home memorializes and honors the victims of a century-old unsolved murder.
