Places rog18 Wants to Go

These 40,000-year-old stenciled hands are older than the famous cave art in France and Spain.

A celebrity from the late Cretaceous period.

An easily overlooked stretch of ornate window fronts and gaslight lamps that could be right from the pages of Dickens.

The abandoned remnants of a little sanctuary for world peace that fell into disrepair.

But did the famous feminist and abolitionist ever really say those iconic four words?

An ingenious Dutch land art project uses grass ridges to cut airport noise pollution in half.

The U.S. Fish Commission’s effort to mass produce carp.

Built by the patriotic residents of Boonsboro in a single day.

There's a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument hidden under a manhole nearby.

The monument's pointy aluminum tip has been melted down by repeated lightning strikes.

Daredevil repair workers can worm their way out the access hatch, loop ropes over the apex and rappel down the monument.

Look closely and you’ll notice that the color changes a third of the way up the tower.

A curious little museum dedicated to the furry feline in the cat haven that is Old Town Kotor.

The walls of Germany's Parliament still show the scars of the Red Army takeover in World War II.

A reconstructed medieval gateway that was the magnificent entrance to the capital city dating back to 1037.

Two distinctive homes on a New England village green look like a couple of frosted wedding cakes.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A library of only unpublished manuscripts.

This giant Buddha statue has 125,000 smaller Buddhas hidden inside it.

This 3,800-year-old site contains markers used to study the movement of the sun and moon and create a lunar calendar.

Ancient Egyptian relief, claimed to depict an electrical light.

No telescopes, no power, no gift shop: The Observatory of Chichen Itza, one of the world's oldest observatories, takes astronomy back to basics.

The oldest working mechanical clock in the world.

Numerical symbolism abound at East Asia's oldest observatory.