Places rbenn250 Wants to Go

A neglected and disused parking garage ramp has become home street artists to share their art.

A fantastic resource for information on both Route 66 and the local area.

Forgotten forts that were pivotal in Singapore’s military history.

From an earlier era, a small community was established and was prosperous but drifted away, leaving only the bank vault behind.

A ruined hilltop watch base in the Aravalli ridge above Jaipur, where broken fort walls and a forgotten lookout overlook Man Sagar Lake, reachable only by scrambling through cactus-covered desert trails.

This roadside establishment in between Houston and the Louisiana border has the largest alligator in captivity

Two unremarkable-looking rocks on a cobblestone street are actually ancient wanderers; one a 150-million-year-old limestone, the other a 1.8-billion-year-old granite.

A memorial dedicated to the famed North Pole explorer appropriately sits at the far edge of Arlington National Cemetery.

The Princess Mishawaka statue and story honor the legend of a Shawnee Indian heroine and promoted tourism in the 1930s.

A hauntingly beautiful grave commemorates love evermore.

A statue donated to the city of Mishawaka, Indiana in 1992, commemorating the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s arrival.

A living folk-art atelier where a Brazilian self-taught artist is building one of the largest lion sculptures in the world.

A tongue-in-cheek marker at the place where Robert Barr supposedly created Scotland’s favorite soft drink.

Before the Vatican, there was Dolton: This is the childhood home of the first American pope.

26 Chinese banyan trees cling dramatically to a stone wall, overhanging the street below.

On the campus of Franklin College you can get a Benjamin Franklin twofer.

Across Valencia lie the remains of three ancient fortifications built centuries apart: a Roman enclosure, an Islamic expansion, and a medieval Christian wall.

A life-sized imperial army, buried in battle formation, has stood underground for over 2,000 years—built not for war, but for eternity.

A forgotten stone skeleton of medieval Dijon slumbers beneath the feet of unsuspecting museum visitors.

Mediaeval cross marking an old Roman ridgeway on the top of moors in the Peak District.

The west's first Japanese museum and the origin of East Asian studies.

A small stone boy mischievously turns his backside toward the city’s most famous water carrier.

The forgotten site of Guam’s first civilian hospital, where crumbling concrete foundations overlook the sea.

Rest stops along this pathway offer some of the best views of the Acropolis of Athens.