Places rog18 Wants to Go

The first lookout in Yosemite.

A curious collection of mechanical moving figures.

A mechanized clock where a man fights off a dragon, crab, and rooster.

A 14th-century fortified keep showcases the masterpieces of an ingenious 20th-century clockmaker.

A beautiful and classically designed villa, with an hourly infestation of monsters.

Daily jousts and dancing barrel makers in Munich's mechanical clock.

An often-shuddersome journey into a low-tech, robotic themepark.

The elaborate clockwork contraptions in this Scottish gallery create small worlds of whimsy and horror.

Naked scientists race around the pole in the frigid cold to try to join Antarctica's exclusive 300 Club.

The place of worship erected not once, but three times in one of the most desolate places on Earth.

The famous polar explorer stands outside the Royal Geographical Society's headquarters.

This museum on a college campus pays tribute to the Arctic and to two explorer alumni.

Final resting place of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton.

The barrel-made lookout from Shackleton's final ship is tucked away in the crypt of one of London's oldest churches.

The bodies of some early polar pioneers are still buried beneath the harsh snows of the Antarctic.

Nimrod Polar Expedition base, and home to hundred-year-old frozen whisky.

A wooden hut from the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration.

This Netherlands museum holds a gloriously mechanical collection of ornate musical automata.

A 250-year-old timepiece-automaton adorned with golden mechanical birds, which still sing to this day.

These magnificent 240-year-old machines are considered distant ancestors of the computer.

Housing the famous Norwegian ice-defying 19th century polar exploration ship.

This grave marks one of few bodies retrieved from the disastrous Franklin Arctic expedition.

Japan's first automaton went missing, only to be revived by the Osaka Science Museum.

Fire meets ice at the southernmost volcano on Earth.