Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

A full-service gas station known as the oldest in America.

A giant silver apple a day keeps the perils of capitalism away.

This candy-pink cathedral of Da Nang is also known as the Chicken Church.

The birthplace of the Japanese idiom "wet clothes" meaning “false accusation."

The center of this Polish border town was so thoroughly wiped out in World War II that only the foundations remain.

Once a resting spot for King Fernando VII.

This formerly-prosperous Silesian mining town was completely demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s as an attempt to cover up a secret Soviet uranium mine.

A statue of an astronomer gazes at the sky as a tribute to Caroline Herschel.

Original factory of John G. Borden who started what we know today known as Borden Dairy.

At the entrance of this chapel is a fresco commemorating the dead from the plague outbreak of 1630.

This mosaic made out of books represents one of Colonial Mexico's most important literary figures.

This free museum is building a collection of books that are banned, censored or burnt around the world.

A strip of traditional hand towel serves as an admission ticket at this modern tenugui museum.

The only boathouse Frank Lloyd Wright ever designed was also the only unbuilt structure in his famous Wasmuth Portfolio, until 2007.

One of the oldest structures in Helsinki is this burrow grave that dates back to the Bronze Age.

The world's largest collection of fire-fighting items dating back almost 350 years.

The most impressive of Basel's three remaining city gates.

A tribute to the successful role of the Keflavik Naval Air Station in the defense of Iceland, United States and NATO Alliance.

Built to supply water to farmers in Alberta, this was once was the world's longest elevated concrete structure.

At the end of a street is a statue with no indication as to why it was created.

In an effort to escape the horrors of slavery, one man mailed himself to freedom.

A mysterious Castle is now home to a rare breed of goat.

War prevented this Polish composer's body from being returned to his home country for 51 years. Though his ashes eventually made it home, his heart stayed behind.

The ruins of a hermitage constructed during the 12th century.