Places scienceballer Wants to Go

A strange egg in a mucky bog of western Ireland marks the spot of an aviation milestone.

This community on a small Venetian island has taken to painting their houses in bright neon hues.

An Italian vineyard invites religious pilgrims to stop by 24/7 to get their drink on, for free.

The perfectly preserved underground rooms where Churchill plotted the war against Germany.

A spectacular annual festival centers around humans throwing molten iron against a wall at night.

This fairy-tale castle would make Dracula (who is said to have been imprisoned there) jealous.

Two churches shoot bottle rockets at each others' bell towers in an unusual Easter celebration.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

Take a giant yellow bird cage to the top of Elba's highest mountain.

A vista of the city and sea from atop the little-known viewing deck on an unassuming Columbus statue.

The world's tallest bridge is also possibly the most elegant.

The Bloemen Route, or “Flower Route”, stretches 25 miles through prime Dutch tulip country as a result of “tulip mania,” the world’s first economic bubble.

Monument to a brutal, ineffectual US bombing campaign and a sobering reminder of the human cost of the Vietnam War.

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

Germany's Glienicke Bridge has a shady history of clandestine meetings, espionage, and spycraft.

The great Italian Renaissance painter was laid to rest here in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert.

This French ghost town from World War II has been left as a memorial to German atrocities during World War II.

The world's largest reflecting pool is just two centimeters deep.

One of the tallest buildings in Iceland, and perhaps, the most visually impressive.

A winding, blood-red tunnel of hardened lava navigable by foot.

Climb right into the heart of this colorful Iceland volcano.

Walk in the footsteps of the gods and straddle two tectonic plates.

Iceland's "Smoky Valley" is a beautiful river that is shrouded in a constant cover of steam clouds.

The most powerful waterfall in all of Europe.