Places SailorAlphaC Wants to Go

The highest natural point in New York City and all of the Atlantic coastal plain.

Nine of the very few concrete ships ever made in the U.S. are beautifully decaying off a Virginia pier.

This Chinese museum proves that it's a watermelon world, we're all just living in it.

When the sun sets, the customers arrive—but they’re not human.

Iceland's largest geothermal mud pool is a little bit haunted and a little bit dangerous.

The suspected burial mound of legendary Viking Björn Ironside.

Get past the gatekeeper's apartment and enter an elaborate hoax of a restaurant with a Masonic feel.

A mountaintop space observatory that is certified dark.

A concrete arrow from a 1920s network of airmail beacons is still preserved at the western edge of suburban Reno.

A 315-foot spire jutting out from the Blue Ridge Mountains makes for breathtaking views.

Originally conceived as part of a proposed Arizona State Capitol building in the 1950s, this structure built in 2004 stands as a monument to the architect's legacy.

The Roman Emperor's lost summer home and grotto full of enormous sculptures sit along the Italian seashore.

Marikina's record-breaking loafers.

Smoked mummies housed in mountainside caves.

Hundreds of wooden coffins dangle from cliffs and caves in the Philippines.

An eatery in a shallow river where diners can enjoy their meal mere feet from the base of an artificial waterfall.

This knick-knack-covered house (complete with a matching van) is a charming oddity in the middle of a modest downtown neighborhood.

For six months of the year, three giant mirrors direct a pool of sunshine onto this otherwise occluded town.

A museum celebrating rare American motorcycles where everything runs—and none of it quietly.

The portrait of a man from Japan who sent weekly letters to a Dutch hotel he never visited.

A mysterious monument meant to be a guide into "an Age of Reason" was destroyed after an apparent bombing.

Where a brain, a beauty, a jock, a rebel, and a recluse met one Saturday and changed their lives forever.

This Central New York ghost town was once a prosperous railroad community.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.