Places rog18 Wants to Go

A scale model of Russia so big visitors are offered binoculars to rent so they can see the whole thing.

America's oldest Eastern European synagogue provided the immigrants of crowded Lower East Side tenements a space of sanctuary.

The world's first zoo for microbes collecting the horrible and wonderful things living on and around us.

A completely underwater art museum sends a stark message about humans' impact on the environment.

The alpine falls where Sherlock Holmes apparently met his demise can actually be visited.

Bioluminescent firefly squid light up this Japanese fishing port.

This former Indiana quarry has been transformed into a park and SCUBA site where divers can explore the drowned mining equipment.

This underground oasis is one of North America’s most fascinating prehistoric places—and you can scuba dive in it.

A steamer run aground near Bimini lives a second life as a playground for scuba divers.

A submerged archeological park still holds the wonders of a Roman Sodom.

Nature took her revenge on the "Wickedest City in the World."

Inhospitable caverns just beneath this island paradise offer insights into alien worlds.

A flooded Mexican cave that hides a river beneath the water.

This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

Vortex-shaped aquarium hosts Europe's largest school of piranhas and other ocean creatures.

Each year melting snow turns these Austrian hiking trails into scuba zones.

The birthplace of most all of Europe's space missions is here on the Dutch coast.

The universally beloved children's television figure is interred on a high hilltop in one of western Pennsylvania's oldest cemeteries.

"Call for the doctor, call for the nurse... Vote!! said the lady with the alligator purse."

This statue commemorates the meeting of the most influential minds of the women’s rights movement.

These millipedes glow not out of attraction, but as a not-too-subtle warning.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

A gothic palace of endless stalagmites and pseudoscorpions waits within one of the world's most beautiful caves.

A butcher shop in Minneapolis has all the meats and cheeses you’d expect from any of its kind—except that all the products are vegan.