Places scoutboy Wants to Go

One of Mother Nature’s geological gems, home to many prehistoric fossils.

This legendary dessert was served to Nobel laureates for decades.

A preserved stretch of ancient fossilized trees with an impressive gem collection to boot.

A mining town, now abandoned, was built in a canyon so narrow that the railroad ran right through the hotel lobby.

This somber statue remembers the enslaved women who were forced to nurse their owners' babies.

A brilliant turquoise lake in the mountains.

You can crawl inside this atmospheric 5,000-year-old tomb.

A two-inch thick solid brass rod that extends an astounding one kilometer straight into the earth.

A rare chance to ride one of the few continuous elevators still in operation.

Psychedelic murals coat the inside of a nondescript research library.

A disquieting Aztec sculpture displays hundreds of stone skulls representing the victims of human sacrifice.

A Roman spa buried deep beneath the City of London.

The mysterious megaliths have enchanted and intrigued visitors for thousands of years.

A visionary, futuristic sculpture in Los Angeles that never met its extraterrestrial potential.

This collection of 80 polarizing foods aims to challenge your subjective notions of repulsion.

The largest puppetry museum in the United States houses the world's most complete collection of Jim Henson artifacts.

Known as "The People's Park," this verdant oasis is home to elephants and villagers alike.

A unique 1980s designed church sits uncomfortably in its traditional Victorian churchyard.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

This triumphal arch celebrating the Sun King's conquest of Lille is a masterpiece of military architecture.

An unassuming rod in the Netherlands was once the old standard unit of length for the entire Dutch empire.

This neighborhood of futuristic ball houses looks like an alien settlement in a science fiction film.

Coast along one of Japan’s mountain railways for coveted views of magnificent hydrangeas.

Aged nearly 1,700 years, the world's oldest bottle of wine is probably still drinkable.