Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

A 132-year-old telescope continues to keep watch over the night skies above Providence.

The raised stones in the middle of this road through Culross are relics of a 17th-century class divide.

This municipal sundial has been keeping time along Tacoma's Commencement Bay since 1978.

This building played host to some of the most influential minds of the Industrial Revolution and now serves as a reminder of the influence of Northern coalfields.

During the renovation of this bas-relief, the constructors added one unusual element.

This replica of a 16th-century French settlement memorializes one of the earliest attempts at a European settlement in North America.

An 18th-century religious argument etched into stone.

Some believe this tree to be more than 1,500 years old.

The largest battery in New England sits atop a Massachusetts mountain.

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

The last gas-lit cinema in the United Kingdom, and perhaps the world.

This remote river crossing was a popular campground on American westward expansion trails, and a former Pony Express station.

At 11,500 feet in elevation, there is no toilet in the state closer to the sky than this one.

This Swiss cemetery is reserved for people who died in climbing accidents.

After attracting attention for nearly three decades while standing in front of a church, this phallic stone sculpture is now tucked away in a campus backyard.

The ghostly remains of a gunpowder mill lost in 70 hectares of thick woods.

The source of America's longest river is also a historical landmark and the start of a famous nude run.

A tiny museum dedicated to the world’s tallest true giant sits on an island he never set foot on.

Long before Europeans arrived, Native Americans built an artificial island out of shells that has withstood a millennia of hurricanes.

The former home of one of the U.K.’s most notable families of suffragettes is now a museum dedicated to women’s rights.

This girder was hit by a bomb during the Spanish Civil War, but nobody knew about it until 2016.

The pillars inside this small, ornate shrine hold Bangkok's horoscope within them.

This unassuimng grain elevator, commonly confused for a smokestack, helped inspire the modern architecture movement.

A collection of nostalgic items from the Showa era with an exhibit on the local ghost story of the Snow Woman.