Places scmik Wants to Go

A whimsical display of massive metal sculptures made from recycled materials.

Originally a mission, what may be the oldest building on Maui is now a museum of the island’s history.

One of the best-preserved pieces of DDR propaganda in Berlin.

Step aboard the first ship to circumnavigate North America.

The original Budweiser has a long-standing naming dispute with its American counterpart.

It has an American Dream Car exhibit, Europe's largest Formula One collection, and many, many mannequins.

Commercial aircraft storage facility, where you can see a TWA 747.

An installation tells of the horrific 1964 tsunami that devastated Crescent City, California.

Walk down these stairs to get an underwater view of Switzerland's Lake Zug.

The original building of a mining school endowed by one of the barons of the Comstock Lode now houses a museum of earth science and mining history.

Ten 25-foot-tall, beehive-shaped kilns, abandoned in Death Valley.

The sweet story of how American cargo planes became known as "Candy Bombers" during the Berlin Blockade.

Berlin's natural history museum houses the world's largest mounted dinosaur and the late beloved polar bear Knut.

A haunting contrast of trains that both saved and took the lives of Jewish children in Nazi Germany.

Gardens representing parts of Asia, Europe, and the Mid East are tucked away among the Soviet-style buildings in East Berlin.

A perfectly preserved small-town pharmacy and soda fountain that opened in the early 20th century and closed in the 1980s.

A museum specifically dedicated to the Trabant, one of the iconic automobiles of the GDR.

Pause for an afternoon fika with sublime Scandinavian cakes and pastries.

The "3rd largest" city in California is an empty mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.

The prototype for all Nazi concentration camps.

The United States' first transcontinental automobile road came to its end at this spot in San Francisco's Lincoln Park.

This nature center has one of the largest collections of native raptors in the Pacific Northwest.

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

The stone circle honors the 19 firemen who perished during the Yarnell Hill Fire.