Places scoutboy Wants to Go

The abandoned ruins of a beautiful medieval castle just outside Barcelona.

A sophisticated astronomical tower built by one of the greatest Persian scholars of the Islamic Golden Age.

Dinosaur eggs were first discovered at these fiery red cliffs.

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

The fake World Cup prize was secretly created after the first one was stolen in 1966.

For nearly a year, General Ulysses S. Grant was based here during the American Civil War.

Though strikingly beautiful, Seattle's other railway station is now largely forgotten.

To truly appreciate Detroit's landmark skyscraper, you have to step inside.

The world's northernmost brewery uses water from a 2,000-year-old glacier to create its beer.

A fearsome dragon clings to a corner of Munich's city hall.

What looks like a normal building is really a hollow facade hiding a subway vent.

This Cuban town sets the sky on fire around Christmas each year.

This Cold War missile launch site has been abandoned for 40 years.

A reconstructed farm shows what life was like in Norway 1,500 years ago.

An antique narrow gauge railway line still running through the Colorado and New Mexico mountains.

The home of half the world's population of critically endangered mountain gorillas.

A galaxy of glowworms—larvae of a gnat—hides deep in the belly of these caves.

This lavish room in a New York City mansion is a rare relic from the end of the Gilded Age.

An arresting temple full of mosaics as colorful as the politician they memorialize.

A tiny collection of traditional Japanese woodblock prints, open only when the owner feels like it.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This overlooked street light once served as a KGB dead letter box.

The wreckage of a crash that killed nine people still litters the Franklin Mountains.

The spot where the two men ate together now stands enclosed in glass.